Redlands Coast is home to four cemeteries and one memorial cremation garden. Currently, three cemeteries are open: two on the mainland and one on North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah) and a memorial cremation garden on Russell Island.
On this page:
- Cleveland Cemetery
- Redland Bay Cemetery
- Dunwich Cemetery
- Bay Island Memorial Garden
- Serpentine Creek Cemetery (inactive)
- Cemetery forms, fees and terms
Cleveland Cemetery
Location: 53-71 Wellington Street, Cleveland QLD 4163 (Corner of Russell Street)
Cleveland Cemetery on Google Maps
Rich in history, Cleveland Cemetery, bounded by Clark, Coburg Street West, Russell and Wellington Streets was given to Council in 1927. It opened in the 1890s and replaced a smaller burial ground near current day Lisa Street. The cemetery contains the Pioneer's section, Catholic and Protestant Monumental burial areas, two lawn burial areas, cremation memorial rock gardens and traditonal columbarium and elegant granite wall niches.The pleasant cemetery grounds are often visited by tour groups, schools and university students researching historical graves of the many pioneers who are buried there. Read the recent feedback received from Cleveland District State High School's cemetery visit [PDF, 0.2MB]. A recent refurbishment of the Columbarium cremation garden, Randall Memorial Garden Niche Walls and the rebuild of the Lychgate with new granite niche walls offer cremation ash interment options.
Currently all monumental and lawn burial allotments have now been allocated, however you can register your interest on our waiting list for an allotment. Please give our Cemeteries team a call on (07) 3829 8570 or email cemetery@redland.qld.gov.au to see what options are available to suit your requirements.
Burials
Lawn Allotment sites
Cleveland Cemetery has two lawn burial sections along Russell Street and our new Clark Street Lawn burial allotments. All lawn burial allotments are now reserved. Cremated remains can be interred into burial allotments. Pre-payment of burial (interment) fees is not currently available. 
Monumental Allotment sites
All monumental burial allotments are now reserved. Monumental sites may also include:
- above-ground vault (subject to Council approval)
- underground concrete vault (subject to Council approval)
- cremation remains burial.
Pre-payment of burial (interment) fees is not currently available.
Headstones and monumental work
You have a choice of either headstone or lawn plaque placed at a lawn burial site. Monuments are to be built 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
Randall Memorial walls
The Randall Memorial Garden has recently undergone a complete transformation with elegant white granite wall niches set in a quartz garden setting. One set of cremation ashes may be interred into each niche, and a cast bronze memorial plaque affixed to the granite cover is included with every ash interment.
Columbarium walls
Cremation ashes in our traditional columbarium brick walls are interred in a single or double niche. A memorial plaque is included in the ash interment to cover the niche opening and is available to order through Council.
Lychgate niche walls
Our newly built reproduction Lychgate with niche walls offers a choice of elegant single or double white granite cremation niches. Cast bronze memorial plaques are included with the interment of ashes and is available through Council.
All niches can be reserved in advance. Pre-payment of ash interment fees is currently not available.
Our cemeteries administration team can help with enquiries about burial records.
Redland Bay Cemetery
Location: 19-27 Gordon Road, Redland Bay, QLD 4165
Redland Bay Cemetery on Google Maps
Originally known as North Redland Cemetery, today’s Redland Bay Cemetery located on Gordon Road, Redland Bay hosted our first funeral in 1908. Since then many generations from the Redlands Coast have chosen to be remembered with a burial or cremation memorial at this rural style cemetery.
We are excited to announce our newest garden, Naturally Wonderful Eco Scatter Garden. Memorial timber pillars are set amongst a variety of native koala habitat trees. Individual cremated remains are placed at the base of the nominated tree with a memorial cast bronze plaque placed on the timber pillar. The gardens are maintained free of any additional maintenance fee and as the native trees grow, the garden will benefit from dappled shade for visitors to enjoy spending time remembering family and friends.
Our packaged lawn burial interments have the provision of complimentary bronze plaques set on elegant granite bases or, should you prefer a personal memorial for your loved ones, there is the option of full monumental or headstone only interment sites.
In this rural style location you may be lucky enough to see some of our frequent visitors, including wallabies, native birdlife and koalas resting in the many varieties of gum trees located throughout the cemetery. An accessible restroom is located close to the car park. Come and see for yourself what makes this a special place for so many families and friends. To make an appointment to see what options we have that may suit your requirements give our team a call on (07) 3829 8570 or email cemetery@redland.qld.gov.au. We will meet with you on-site to help with any guidance for at-need or pre-need allotments.
Monumental or lawn burial allotments and cremation memorial sites can be purchased now for future use.
Burials
Allotment sites
Redland Bay Cemetery has two standard allotment sizes offered for burials in our newly established monumental section and two lawn burial areas:
- 1.8m deep grave (accommodates two adults)
- 2.1m deep grave (accommodates three adults – additional fee and conditions apply).
Sites can be purchased for future use (pre-need) or for immediate use (at need) and may also include ash burial.
Headstones and monumental work
You may have a headstone or monumental work constructed on allotments located in designated monumental sites and headstone lawn areas. Monumental work is strictly allowed only in these designated areas, and all headstones and monuments must comply with Australian Standard AS 4204-1994 for Headstones and Cemetery Monuments.
To arrange a headstone or monument, contact a stonemason who will assist with submitting a plan of the proposed works to the Council for approval, along with the necessary permit application fee.
NOTE: Redland City Council requires all monumental stonemasons, builders, and contractors to complete a contractor registration form before the acceptance of any permit application for monument work. It is the responsibility of the burial rights holder to ensure that their selected stonemason is duly authorised to perform work within Council-controlled cemeteries. To avoid engaging an unauthorised contractor, burial rights holders should verify the approval of their chosen stonemason before making any deposits. The Council maintains strict criteria for the approval of contractors permitted to work within its cemeteries.
Packaged lawn burial sites
Our Lawn Package Burial Section in Lawn 3 provides a beautifully designed lawn plaque affixed to an elegant granite base, included with a coffin interment (one plaque per allotment site). This thoughtful and respectful package ensures a lasting tribute in a serene and well-maintained setting. For full details and information on the inclusions for a packaged lawn burial site, please reach out to our dedicated Cemetery and Interment Services staff, who will be happy to assist you.
Cremation options
Columbarium walls
Cremation ashes in the columbarium walls are interred in a single or double niche. A memorial plaque is included in the ash interment to cover the niche opening and is available to order through Council.
Memorial Circle Garden
The Memorial Circle Garden has provision for single or double ash capacity. The memorial pillars are set amongst aromatic garden beds of rosemary and fragrant gardenia ground cover. Cast bronze memorial plaques, provided by Council, are placed on timeless sandstone memorial pillars. The gardens are maintained free of any additional maintenance fee. The Tuckeroo tree provides dappled shade for visitors to enjoy spending time remembering family and friends.
Naturally Wonderful Eco Scatter Garden
Set amidst a variety of native koala habitat trees, ‘Naturally Wonderful’ offers a peaceful and serene setting to grieve, reflect, and honor your loved one. This area embraces vital conservation values, ensuring it provides the most natural cremation interment possible. In ‘Naturally Wonderful’, cremated remains are directly poured into the earth, bypassing the PVC capsule typically provided by the crematorium.
The memorial trees serve an important purpose in environmental offsetting, contributing to balancing the impacts of development. Sustainable ironbark timber pillars, sourced locally with a durability rating of 1, support the welcoming sign and memorial plaques. The bronze plaques, made primarily from recycled materials, are crafted by foundries that focus on lowering their carbon footprint and offer plaque recycling programs.
Individual cremated remains are interred at the base of the chosen tree, with up to 10 interments allowed per tree. Each interment is commemorated by an individual plaque placed on a timber pillar near the tree. Cremation interments are conducted monthly by our experienced cemetery officers, ensuring an affordable and respectful service for the community. Alternatively, private witness interment ceremonies can be arranged, subject to additional fees.
The White family were the first ones to inter their loved ones' ashes in the new Eco Scatter Garden in October 2022.
Read how Ruth and Joseph White were lovingly honoured in the White Family Testimonial [PDF, 14.8 KB]
All cremation allotments can be reserved in advance. Pre-payment of ash interment fees is not currently available.
Dunwich Cemetery
Location: Bingle Road (near corner of Yabby Street), North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), QLD 4183
Dunwich Cemetery on Google Maps
Our historic Dunwich Cemetery is a fascinating and special place for many generations. Originally used by the Benevolent Society who set up on North Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah in the 1860s as a residential care facility, the cemetery came to Councils’ control in the 1970s. There are many thousands of interments from the Benevolent Asylum days across the grounds. Currently there are no unallocated earth burial allotments on this historic location, however we have cremation memorial niche wall sites available. To record your interest in securing a memorial option or for further information please contact us on (07) 3829 8570 or email cemetery@redland.qld.gov.au.
We also provide memorialisation for the unmarked Benevolent Asylum interments with an inscribed plaque on the special Benevolent Asylum Memorial Wall. Fashioned from some of the bricks of the original Benevolent Society buildings, this wall features memorial plaques for those who spent time in the care of the society or who are interred in the cemetery.
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.
Bay Island Memorial Garden
Location: High Street Russell Island, QLD 4184
Bay Island Memorial Garden on Google Maps
The Bay Island Memorial Garden is located on Russell Island and was opened in November 2017. The new picturesque memorial garden is a place for Moreton Bay Island residents to commemorate and remember family and friends in tranquil surroundings. This special cremation garden is located at the edge of the High Street Nature Belt Park, where family and friends’ ashes may be interred and marked on the garden edge with a cast bronze memorial plaque. The garden offers a peaceful, relaxed environment for visitors. It is a place to quietly reflect and remember, surrounded by nature. To purchase a memorial allotment or for further information give our team a call on (07) 3829 8570 or email cemetery@redland.qld.gov.au .
Cremation sites
Cremation ashes may be interred in the memorial garden. A 120mm x 80mm memorial cast bronze plaque is affixed to the garden edge and is included with every ash interment. Families may request to be present for the interment of ashes into the garden.
Cremation sites can be reserved in advance. Pre-payment of ash interment fees is not currently available.
Serpentine Creek Cemetery (inactive)
The original Redland Bay Cemetery, this burial ground is located at 398 Serpentine Creek Road (Route 47) and was active from the 1890s until the late 1940s, when the population of the area migrated north to the main centre near Redland Bay and Cleveland. It is currently inactive. Re-interments from here went to the established (North) Redland Bay Cemetery. The site was managed by "Trustees” from the 1890s until the site was handed to Redland Council in 1977. Currently a natural landscape, the area has previously been used for grazing and timber-felling and of course those early funerals and burials.
Bay Island Memorial Garden on Google Maps
Cemetery forms, fees and terms
Use the following forms, terms and guidelines to help you lodge your cemetery application.
Cemetery fees and charges
Cemetery fees and charges 2024 - 2025 [PDF, 0.2MB]
Cemetery terms and regulations [PDF, 0.1MB]
Burial interment form
Cremation interment form
Cremation interment application form [PDF, 0.62MB]
Monumental works application
Monumental work permit application form [PDF, 0.54MB]
NOTE: Redland City Council requires all monumental stonemasons, builders, and contractors to complete a contractor registration form prior to the acceptance of any permit application to perform monument work. It is the responsibility of the burial rights holder to ascertain that their selected monumental stonemason is duly authorised to perform work within Council-controlled cemeteries. To mitigate the risk of engaging a person or business who lacks the requisite authorisation, burial rights holders are advised to verify such approval before remitting any deposit to their preferred contractor. The Council maintains stringent criteria for the approval of contractors permitted to work within its cemeteries.
More information
For futher information or assistance with locating burial records please contact our Cemetery and Interment Services Unit on (07) 3829 8570 or email cemetery@redland.qld.gov.au.
We are a member of the Australasian Cemeteries & Crematoria Association and the Cemeteries & Crematoria Association of New South Wales.