Our compassionate team understand the significance of honouring and memorialising your loved ones in a meaningful way.
We are dedicated to assisting you with your needs including caring for existing memorials.
Ashes Positions
At this time, there are no new ashes interment positions available for purchase at the Cemetery.
We continue to provide interment and memorial services for those who hold an existing ashes position. If you have an existing position or are arranging an interment, our team is here to support you.
The Ferntree Gully Cemetery masterplan will guide the creation of more ashes interment positions that are respectfully designed to reflect the site's heritage and natural setting.
We are planning more positions in the cemetery. Register your interest to be notified as new ashes interment positions become available.
Gravesites
There are no new gravesites for sale.
We continue to provide services for people with existing gravesites.
Owners of existing gravesites
- Burial bookings need to be made through your funeral director.
- The holder of the Right of Interment must authorise any use of the grave.
- Gravesites can accommodate up to 3 burials (depending on ground conditions), with the first burial being at 9 feet deep.
- In addition, up to 6 sets of ashes can be interred in each gravesite.
Fees
Fees apply to existing gravesites, for renovation works and new memorials.
Join the Ferntree Gully Cemetery Community Consultative Group
Join the Ferntree Gully Cemetery Community Consultative Committee to help shape the future direction of the cemetery.
- The Consultative Group was formed to help guide and inform Council’s decisions for the cemetery.
- Recruitment is open and community members are welcome to join or leave at any time.
- Members can choose when and how much they would like to participate in engagement opportunities.
To become a member of the Consultative Group, follow the Cemetery project on our Have Your Say website.
View the Ferntree Gully Cemetery Community Consultative Group Terms of Reference.
Ferntree Gully Cemetery Masterplan
The Ferntree Gully Masterplan provides a long-term development plan for the cemetery. The masterplan outlines a carefully considered and staged approach for development that is respectful to the site’s heritage and environmental values.
Key aims of the masterplan include
- meeting community needs
- addressing demands for more interment opportunities
- generating income to fund cemetery operations.
The masterplan will be funded by the Ferntree Gully Cemetery Trust, which is independent of Council funding. No ratepayer funds will be used for the development of the cemetery.
Council developed the masterplan following community engagement and it was adopted by Council on 15 December 2025.
Find out more about the masterplan
Cemetery records
We manage a record of the deceased at the cemetery called the Register of Interred Persons.
Learn more about who is interred at the cemetery from our Register of Interred Persons – 1 March 2026.
Cemetery maps
The following maps cover areas of the cemetery:
- Map - Ferntree Gully Cemetery
- Church of England Section A
- Church of England Section B
- Church of England Section C
- Church of England Section D
- Church of England Section E
- Church of England Section G
- Foothills Lawn
- Lawn F
- Lawn Roundabout
- Lutheran Lawn and Lutheran Denominational Section
- Memorial Rose Garden
- Methodist Lawn Section
- Methodist Section A
- Methodist Section B
- Other Denominational Section
- Pioneer Section
- Presbyterian Lawn
- Presbyterian Section B
- Presbyterian Section D
- Roman Catholic Section A
- Roman Catholic Section B
- Roman Catholic Section C
- Roman Catholic Section D
- Rose Garden - Plots 1 - 73
- Rose Garden - Plots 74 - 146
- Rose Garden - Plots 147 - 220
History
The Ferntree Gully Cemetery was established in 1873 when 5 acres of Crown land were reserved as the site for a cemetery.
Many pioneers of the district are buried in the cemetery including the well-known families of Dobson, Baird and Friberg. You may recognise these names as ward names in our municipality.
The cemetery also has the honour of being the last resting place of renowned landscape artist Sir Arthur Streeton.
Knox City Council took over responsibility as Trustee of the cemetery in July 1982.
In 1984 the Governor in Council declared the Ferntree Gully Cemetery closed for the sale of new graves.
In 1999, the Council appointed the Ferntree Gully Cemetery Trust Committee to oversee the management of the cemetery.
This committee was sunsetted in 2017.
Find out more about the Ferntree Gully Cemetery Trust and its Committee.
Need help?
Email [email protected]. Please include your phone number and we come back to you as soon as possible.
Or call the Ferntree Gully Cemetery team on 9298 8000.
