Cemeteries

Memorial Inspections.

AES Ltd intends to carry out a safety survey of the memorials in the following burial grounds.

All Saints' Church, Old Glossop, Glossop cemetery, St Johns Church Charlesworth, Christ Church Tintwistle, Buxton cemetery, Holy Trinity Church Edale (old graveyard only), St Annes Bath Road, St Edmunds Church Castleton, St Georges New Mills, St James Harpur Hill Buxton, St Johns Manchester Road Buxton, St Peters Church Buxton, St Peters Church Hope.

Any memorials found to be unstable will be temporarily secured with a memorial support or will be cordoned off; a structural engineer will assess older, larger memorials. If a memorial is found to be unstable the memorial owner may choose to pay for repairs to be conducted by an approved memorial mason. In default AES Ltd may lower it into the ground or seek authority to lay it flat. Kerb sets maybe buried so that only the top is visible or placed within the grave area.

For more information please read:-

Alliance Memorial Management and Safety Policy 2024 (PDF, 1 MB)
Memorial Safety Survey public notice - Glossop Area (PDF, 114 KB)
Memorial Safety Survey public notice - High Peak (PDF, 117 KB)
Chester Tintwistle Faculty notice (PDF, 204 KB)
AES public notice for failed memorials St Peters, Hope (PDF, 121 KB)
AES public notice for failed memorials Glossop Cemetery (PDF, 107 KB)

We own and care for four cemeteries in the High Peak:

• Buxton Cemetery, Ashbourne Road, Buxton SK17 9RY
• Glossop Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Glossop SK13 7QG
• Hope Cemetery, Bowden Lane, Hope S33 6ZE
• Thornsett Cemetery, High Hill Road, New Mills SK22 1BA

The nearest crematoria are Macclesfield or Stockport.