Headstones, monuments and memorials in Essex and Suffolk
At Hunnaball Memorials, we understand that a headstone is a lasting monument and a tribute to a person’s life, perhaps a final gift to someone dearly loved, so it is important to choose it carefully.
With our own in-house memorial department, serving all our branches in Essex and Suffolk, we are able to guide friends and family, offering choices and solutions for the creation of a lasting memorial for the deceased. We are able to supply all types of memorials and carry out all the formalities with cemetery and church authorities on your behalf.
We offer a range of elegant and distinctive memorials in traditional and contemporary designs, fashioned by hand from the finest granite, limestone and marble. All of our branches display a selection of Hunnaball memorials, made from the many materials available, showing the quality of our workmanship.
Our workshop is fully equipped with the latest machinery and using the most modern techniques. Our skilled craftsmen enable us to retain the traditional values of stonemasonry, using exceptional materials to achieve a whole range of finishes, so that we can offer an option to suit every taste.
Hunnaball Memorials are members of the National Association of Monumental Masons and the British Register of Accredited Memorial Masons and adhere to their regulations at all times, ensuring that our memorials are erected to the highest current safety standards set.
Types of headstone or memorial
There are a number of different types of headstone or memorial depending on whether you are looking for a memorial for cremated remains, or after a burial in a cemetery or churchyard. We also provide a maintenance and restoration service, as well as a few additional products which require a stonemason.
Please click on any of the following products or services for more information:
Cremation Memorials | Churchyard Memorials | Cemetery Memorials | Children’s Memorials
Pet Memorials | Restoration & Maintenance | House Name Plaques
Other memorials and mementos
If, following a cremation, you do not wish to inter the cremated remains, you will still have quite a range of options from which to choose. Even if you choose to inter the majority of the cremated remains, you might decide to keep back a small quantity in order to create a special keepsake. Our dedicated urns and keepsakes page gives more details of the possibilities. Please click here to read more.
Help and advice
If you have never chosen a memorial before, or even if you have, the array of choices can seem quite daunting. We are very pleased to help you to make the right choice, reflecting the person you have lost and ensuring that their memorial is a place that you will want to visit, bringing comfort and hope in the coming years. It is necessary for the ground to settle following a burial or interment, and this allows you several months to consider carefully and be confident that you have made the best choice.
Please be assured that, even if you did not arrange your friend or relative’s funeral through us, we are happy to welcome and advise you on your choice of memorial. You can contact our memorials department directly, or talk to a Hunnaball funeral arranger in the first instance – whichever you feel most comfortable with.
Our memorial advisors will guide you to the most appropriate choice. You will find that in some instances, rules will apply – for example, churchyards do not permit the full range of memorials that are accepted in cemeteries. Or you may wish for a stone suitable for the interment of cremated remains, rather than a burial. We can help you decide on an appropriate memorial for a fitting, permanent tribute.
To contact us for help and advice, please call 01206 794747, email memorials@hunnaball.co.uk or talk to your funeral arranger.
Our memorials team
Jennie Hunnaball
Brad Sharpheale
Melody Carslake
Talina Cutts
Warren Heath
Dean Connelly
View our brochures online here
Please note that local regulations may limit your choices, and, even in the churchyard sections in our brochures, some shapes are excluded by local churches. Please consult our team before making your choice.
Request a brochure
If you would like to read about the different options and choices for memorials, we can send you a brochure to study at your leisure. Please complete the form below with your details and the type of memorial that you are interested in.
Testimonials
Thank you all very much for taking this on when I was getting absolutely nowhere from elsewhere. It’s absolutely stunning and brought a tear to my eye! I really valued your communication and attention to detail from the stonemasons! (Even a passer-by commented on it at the cemetery!) Thanks so much for helping me complete their journey and they can now rest in peace when I move away.
June 2022
With regards to my late wife’s memorial stone, to all concerned with the work, my sincere thanks for a wonderful achievement. I visited the cemetery yesterday and was awe-struck. A stunning piece of workmanship and a great tribute to W. Many thanks to you all.
June 2022
To Everyone at Memorials, I just wanted to say thank you for my Father’s Memorial headstone. It is amazing! The carving of the roses in the stonework is so beautifully done, and the silver wording looks wonderful. My brother and I are so pleased with it. It has been a long wait for him since 1969, but now he has a fitting memorial and this one is great.
April 2022
I visited Mum’s grave today. I’m really happy with the headstone, it’s perfect thank you so much.
December 2021
We as a family are very pleased with my late husband’s headstone. It’s beautiful, so thank you to all concerned.
September 2021
Thank you so much for managing to get the headstone re-erected. I understand that the situation has been very difficult and admire your good organisation in holding all the work together in-between lockdowns. For our family, it feels as though we are ‘secure’ now in the surety of being able to locate them when we go to visit.
March 2021
“Many thanks for all of the help and kindness shown to me and my family members. I will not hesitate to recommend your services.”
December 2023
“You will never know how much it means to me to have the headstone in place for Heather’s birthday and our Diamond Wedding Anniversary. It means so much. Thank you.”
December 2023
“I was delighted to see the work you had done on the grave – the stone had come up so well we could see it from the road. You have done an excellent job on the stone and so quickly.”
December 2023