Business Details
Your Trusted Partner for Handcrafted Memorials in Coventry
Stephen Hill Memorials is an independent family-run business with over 35 years of experience in crafting high-quality memorials. We specialise in creating personalised tributes that reflect the personality, achievements, and beliefs of loved ones. Our services include designing cemetery and churchyard memorials, cremation interment arrangements, and restoration work. We guide clients through complex regulations, handle paperwork, and offer printouts to visualise inscriptions and designs. Our team provides compassionate support, ensuring memorials meet specific requirements while maintaining aesthetic and structural integrity.We serve Coventry and surrounding areas, including Nuneaton, with appointments available outside standard hours. Our commitment to craftsmanship extends to children's memorials, keepsakes, and bespoke ornamentation. We accept advance payments, cash, cheques, and bank transfers. Our showroom is open Monday to Thursday, with closures during bank holidays and Christmas.
Services
Cemetery Memorials
Churchyard Memorials
Children's Memorials
Cremation Caskets
Memorial Restoration
Highlights and features
- We have over 35 years of experience in memorial craftsmanship.
- Our team handles complex church and cemetery regulations.
- We offer bespoke printouts to visualise memorial designs.
- We provide restoration services for existing memorials.
- We serve Coventry and Nuneaton with personalised support.
Services
Cemetery Memorials
We design and install custom cemetery memorials tailored to individual preferences and regulations. Our memorials use durable materials like granite and sandstone, with options for kerb surrounds and engraved ornamentation. Clients receive detailed printouts to visualise layouts before installation.
Churchyard Memorials
Our churchyard memorials comply with diocesan regulations, offering flat tablets or upright headstones in permitted materials. We liaise with vicars to secure approvals and ensure inscriptions meet guidelines. Services include enamelled lettering and symbolic carvings.
Children's Memorials
We create age-appropriate memorials for children, featuring teddy bears, sports motifs, or starry scenes. Our team provides printouts to plan inscriptions and ornamentation, ensuring a compassionate tribute that reflects the child's personality.
Cremation Caskets
We offer cremation caskets and keepsakes in traditional and contemporary designs. Options include brass urns, decorative ornaments, and jewellery with secure ash compartments. Our staff assists with transferring ashes discreetly.
Memorial Restoration
We restore existing memorials through re-gilding, cleaning, and structural repairs. Our services address weathering, damage, and maintenance needs, preserving the memorial's appearance and integrity for future generations.
Questions
What types of memorials do you offer?
We provide cemetery, churchyard, children's memorials, cremation caskets, and restoration services. Custom designs include kerb surrounds, engraved ornamentation, and keepsakes.
How do you handle church or cemetery regulations?
We advise on permitted materials, sizes, and inscription styles. We submit required paperwork to councils or vicars and ensure memorials comply with local regulations.
Can I see examples of memorials before deciding?
Yes, our Coventry showroom displays various memorials. We also provide printouts showing your chosen design and inscription to scale.
What payment methods do you accept?
We accept advance payments, cash, cheques, and bank transfers. Credit or debit cards are not accepted.
Do you serve Nuneaton residents?
Yes, we continue to serve Nuneaton from our Coventry office, offering new memorials, restorations, and inscription updates despite closing our local showroom in 2017.
Reviews (5)
Rubberduck Lanigan
Jul 09, 2021
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Very friendly and knowledgeable, they couldn't do enough to accommodate our needs. Would highly recommend.
Karen Rayner
Jan 07, 2021
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Excellent company. Quality, Service and compassion. Jacqui was such a star and helped me so much in my time of trouble. The Coventry funeral parlour we used caused us so much stress as were so bad but Jaquie took over the Internment. What a fantastic find. Would highly recommended as our family gravestone is amazing. Thank you so much
Paul Ashmore
Aug 14, 2020
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Steve did a great job of my kitchen worktops, really nice chap to deal with, fast, clean and very helpful to.
Steve Travers
Dec 04, 2019
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Can praise strongly enough, excellent from the first phone call to visit discussing what can be done for headstone. So attentive, empathetic, understanding covering all the options in such professional way. Dealing with such things is emotional enough, here they respect that, we were handled marvelously.
Linda Garrett
Oct 30, 2018
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I cannot praise Stephen highly enough! Hes regilded and made safe my late Mothers head stone and done a fantastic job. It looks like new, youd never believe its 36 years old. Thank you
