The Tables of Parochial Fees for the Church in Wales from 1 January 2025 are available on the church’s website, and extracts are reproduced below [1].
There are no fees for Baptism: However, families often want to make a gift as a token of their thanksgiving and appreciation. Charges for Memorial Fees and Searches in church registers are listed with the Funeral and burial fees.
Links to further information are included at the end of this post..
| Description | Ministry Fee [2] | Church Fee [3] | Total Fee |
| Marriage Service (inc. Publication of Banns) | £250 | £345 | £595 |
| Service of Blessing (after Civil Marriage/Partnership) | £225 | £310 | £535 |
| Where Banns are called outside the parish where the marriage service will take place | |||
| Publication of Banns (incl. certificate of Banns) | – | £50 | £50 |
- Ministry Fee
- Church Fee [3]
- £155.
- Burial Fee in Church in Wales Burial Ground, [4]
- Body, £.621.
- Burial of cremated remains, £207.
See also:
- Regulations: For the Administration of Churchyards vested in the Representative Body of the Church in Wales with Effect from 1 January 2026, (December 2025), within which there are minor discrepancies on Ministry costs.
- Notes on funerals.
- Memorial Fee [4]
- Plain wooden cross, £30.
- Grave headstone, £235.
- Cremated remains tablet, £124.
- Additional Inscription, £56.
- Search of Burial Registers [3] £27 per hour (or part thereof).
- FAQs: There are no fees for Baptism. “However, families often want to make a gift as a token of their thanksgiving and appreciation”.
No fee shall be payable in respect of the burial of a still-born infant or child under the age of 18, or in connection therewith, for the services rendered by the Incumbent or other Minister officiating at an interment or, in connection therewith, for registration of burial.
The Ministry Fee covers attendance by the officiating minister at i) a funeral service, or ii) a funeral service followed by burial, or iii) a funeral service followed by a cremation and the subsequent interment of cremated remains. This applies whether the attendance is at a Church in Wales church or elsewhere. The Ministry Fee also includes the signing of the Green Form by the officiating minister. Additional charges for travel costs outside the parish or ministry area may also be levied by the officiating minister.
The Church Fee covers use of the church for a funeral or memorial service. Additional charges can be made for organist, choir, sexton and the reasonable cost of additional heating.
The Burial Fee is for the burial of a body or cremated remains in the allocated grave or cremated remains plot. An additional charge, set locally, will be made for grave digging. The fee is also applicable to a burial or interment in an existing grave or plot.
The Memorial Fee is for the grant of the right to erect a monument on the grave in accordance with the Churchyard Regulations. There will be no reduction for a total replacement of the memorial and a partial replacement will be charged pro-rata. The maintenance of the monument remains the responsibility of the family that erected it.
- Church in Wales: Wedding FAQs.
- Church in Wales: Funeral FAQs.
- Church in Wales: Christenings/Baptisms, FAQs.
- Church in Wales: Churchyard Regulations 2025, (incorporating Burial Fees 2025).
- Law & Religion UK: Parochial Fees: Church in Wales, (24 April 2015).
[1]. At the time of posting, these URLs linked to the Parochial Fees for 2026, not to 2025 as suggested by their titles.
[2]. Payable to the officiating minister.
[4]. Payable to the PCC for the Churchyard Maintenance Fund.