Memorial options at
the Canterbury Memorial Gardens
We offer a wide range of beautiful memorial options for all styles and budgets. You can personalise memorials in many ways, adding illustration, a photograph, or a meaningful inscription. Please ask our team for details.
Some of the older areas of the gardens are almost full. However, if your family has a historic connection to the Canterbury Memorial Gardens, please talk to us about tailoring a memorial for you, so you can rest with those who have gone before.
Always a very special place to visit loved ones who have passed. The grounds are always looking a picture and the roses are looking glorious with amazing colours.
Helen Grant
Your choice of memorials
Individual Rose
Choose a standard rose in our rose gardens as an elegant memorial. We will place an inscribed granite memorial plaque in front of your rose. Ashes may be interred in the garden beneath the plaque.
Rose Memorial
Rest amidst the community rose garden beds throughout the garden. Inscribed granite plaques are placed among the flowers. Ashes may be interred in the garden beneath the plaque.
Wall Memorial
Rest above ground in a wall memorial. Inscribed plaques are placed in rows on walls. Ashes may be interred in a niche behind each plaque.
Pavilion Recumbent
Place a plaque in the Pavilion, a peaceful space to sit with your memories. These larger granite plaques offer more space to personalise your design and message. Ashes may be placed in the garden behind the plaque.
Pavilion Berm
Inscribed granite plaques are placed on memorial berms in front of shrubbery hedge. Ashes may be interred in the lawn in front of your plaque.
Garden Recumbent
Large, inscribed granite plaques are placed on the raised edging surrounding attractively planted garden. Ashes may be interred in the lawn in front of your plaque.
Memorial Library
Memorials in the shape of open books have inscribed plaques attached to the face of the page. Ashes may be interred in the lawn with each book.
Shrubbery Garden
Inscribed granite plaques are placed in a delightful informal garden setting of shrubbery and rockery community gardens. Ashes may be interred in the garden beneath each plaque.
Raised Shrubbery
Inscribed granite plaques are placed on the raised edging surrounding shrubbery gardens. Ashes may be interred in the garden behind each plaque.
Family Monument
This upright monument has space for up to eight individual inscriptions. Choose from different granite styles to personalise your family’s memorial. Ashes may be interred in the garden with each monument.
Family Plot
Dedicate an individual garden plot to your family. With space for up to eight individual interments, your granite monument offers space to personalise your design and message. Ashes may be interred in the garden plot.
Engraved Brick Paver
Pavers inscribed with your loved one’s details are placed in a dedicated area bordering lawn. Ideal for those who wish to scatter ashes.
Scattering Lawn
Arrange to scatter your loved one’s ashes on our peaceful scattering lawn surrounded by garden and trees. You may also wish to choose a memorial for your loved one.
Hand Written Memorial Book
A calligrapher will inscribe your loved one’s name and a dedication in a memorial book that can be viewed every anniversary on the date of death. The Memorial Book is displayed open to the current date and can be viewed in the Memorial Book Room at the administration building.
FAQs about memorials
Memorial terms & conditions
A huge thank you for preparing dad's site last week. It was such a carefree experience and a thoughtful process.
Donna
A magic place to go. All the memories of loved ones who have passed still live on.
Sue McLeod
We’re here to help
If you’ve any questions about the memorial gardens, memorials or cremation, we’re here for you. Call 03 389 6282.