Location
Bingle Road (near corner of Yabby Street), North Stradbroke Island, QLD 4183
Map of Dunwich Cemetery [PDF, 0.35KB]
Burials
Allotment sites
Dunwich Cemetery offers lawn cemetery burials and standard burial plots – with or without monumental memorialisation. The standard grave size offered for burials is 1.8m deep and accommodates two adults. Sites may include cremation ash burials.
All monumental and lawn burial plots are now reserved and Council is unable to take reservations at the Dunwich Cemetery at this time.
Headstones and monumental work
You have a choice of either headstone or lawn plaque placed at a lawn burial site. Monumental work is to be carried out on designated monumental sites only. All headstones and monuments must comply with Australian Standard AS 4204-1994 Headstone and Cemetery Monuments.
Contact a stonemason to arrange a headstone or monument and to submit a plan of the proposed works to Council for approval with the relevant permit application fee.
Council can arrange cast bronze lawn plaques affixed to your choice of base on request (conditions and fees apply).
Cremation options
Columbarium walls
Cremation remains may be interred in one of the traditional columbarium walls in a single niche. A memorial plaque to cover the niche opening is available to order through Council. Families may request to be present for the interment of ashes in columbarium walls. Cremation niches can be reserved in advance. Pre-payment of ash interment fees is not currently available.
Memorial Rock Garden
Cremation ashes can be scattered or buried beneath memorial rocks in the garden areas of the cemetery grounds. Memorial plaques are affixed to the rocks provided by Council and included with an ash interment.
All cremation sites in the Memorial Rock Gardens are now reserved and Council is unable to take reservations at this time. Pre-payment of ash interment fees is not currently available.
Benevolent Asylum Memorial Wall
The memorial wall, made from bricks that were once used in the Dunwich Benevolent Society laundry, commemorates many of the 8426 people who died as asylum inmates. Most of them lie in unmarked graves within the cemetery. Council can arrange memorial plaques to be placed on the wall in memory of those inmates who passed away while infirmed at the asylum. Our cemeteries administration team can help with enquiries about burial records.
Our cemeteries administration team can help with enquiries about burial records.
For more information, please contact us on (07) 3829 8570 or email us at cemetery@redland.qld.gov.au.