Every service is a unique, individual event and to make sure your personal needs are met, Clydebank Crematorium will:
- Make sure your Service is dignified and unhurried
- Cater for all religious and cultural traditions
- Accommodate any size of congregation or gathering
- Provide comfortable and accessible waiting room facilities
- Provide facilities to assist people with disabilities
- Provide a choice of memorials
- Open our Hall of Remembrance and gardens every day of the year for visiting
- Maintain the Lawns of Remembrance to a high standard all year round
- Be open and informative about the services provided
- Offer consultation and choice on the services provided
- Provide staff fully trained with the expertise to meet all requirements
- Offer value for money
- Provide facilities for the betterment of the environment.
Service Times
To ensure an atmosphere of peace and dignity, service times are allocated to allow 30 minutes for each individual service. Should you require a longer service, more time may be reserved.
Music
Our own organist may play the hymns or music you select and your own CDs or cassettes are also acceptable. Please note that pre-recorded music must be delivered to the crematorium at least twenty four hours in advance of the service.
Arrival
Recognising that arrival at a funeral service can be a particularly stressful moment, we provide comfortable waiting rooms for mourners to await the cortege.
Waiting Rooms
Both waiting rooms have seating, toilet facilities, public telephone for local taxi service and fresh drinking water fonts. Funeral Services take place on the hour and the half hour. Each waiting has a vestry for the service officiant where he can meet and discuss in private, if necessary, final arrangements with the family.
The Chapel
The Crematorium Chapel can seat two hundred and thirty guests, one hundred and sixty at ground floor level and the remaining numbers in the balcony area. The organist is situated in the balcony, so that he may observe the service, and will play music on entry to and departure from the chapel. As mentioned earlier, there is the facility to play selected CD or Audio Cassette- taped music selections at certain points in the service. Staff can accommodate such requests however the CD or Cassette must be delivered to the crematorium at least twenty four hours in advance of the service to allow staff to check the quality of the recording. The same applies to sheet music for the organist where an unfamiliar piece of organ music has been selected.
The Flower Room
The Flower Room is located at the rear of the Chapel. Following a service, the floral tributes are removed to the flower room for display and viewing. At particularly busy periods, the floral tributes will be moved to the exterior of the flower room to prolong the opportunity to view whilst accommodating incoming floral tributes. A number of Books of Remembrance and Leather Commemorative Plaque display boards are housed in the Flower Room.
Access for all
Access ramps for wheelchairs have been provided to the waiting rooms, flower room and Hall of Remembrance and the chapel. An induction loop is installed in the chapel to ensure mourners with hearing difficulties can fully participate in the service by switching their hearing aids to the ”T” position. Toilet facilities for disabled visitors are also available.
The Service
For a cremation service the coffin is placed on a catafalque. This is a special structure, contained within a recess at the front of the chapel. At the point of committal, towards the end of the service, the curtains slowly close over the entrance to the catafalque and the lighting is dimmed.
The Hall of Remembrance
Memorials to the departed are mainly housed in the Hall of Remembrance. Within this facility, which is situated opposite the Flower Room, the opportunity is available to view entries to the Books of Remembrance and the commemorative plaques. Seating is provided as is a tea/coffee machine. Set on a hill, The Hall of Remembrance provides spectacular views over the surrounding countryside and along the River Clyde.
Memorials
A short time after the funeral service the certificate of cremation is sent to the person who applied for the cremation. Also included is additional information, some of which details the range of memorials available; from a simple dignified inscription in the Book of Remembrance to a marble plaque. Commemorating the departure of a loved one can help people come to terms with the loss.
Afterwards - visiting the Crematorium
We know how important visiting a grave or Crematorium gardens is therefore the grounds of Clydebank Crematorium are open every day of the year providing a serene, tranquil setting for contemplation and remembrance in areas of natural lawn and floral beds.
Can more information be obtained about cremation?
Additional brochures about the cremation service offered at Clydebank Crematorium and other matters associated with death and bereavement can be obtained at our offices.
