Edinburgh Crematorium Ltd was founded in 1928 by the Edinburgh Cremation Society, in order to provide the citizens of Edinburgh with cremation facilities. The following year Warriston Crematorium carried out its first cremation.

From the beginning Warriston has been the pre-eminent crematorium in Scotland. Its first cremation, carried out on October 29th 1929, was of the late Allan Henderson who had been His Majesty's Consul in Malaga at the time of his death.

The thirties saw Warriston carry out the cremations of the late Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (tutor to the last emperor of China), and the late Alfred Adler (Austrian psychologist, a colleague of Freud and Jung, he developed the concept of the Inferiority Complex).

The following decades have continued in the same vein with notable names ranging from international professional footballers to stage, screen and t.v. icons. In March 2008 Warriston became the first crematorium in Scotland to fit mercury abatement equipment to existing cremators, well ahead of the government deadline of December 2012.

In 1965 Edinburgh Crematorium Ltd acquired the assets of Leith Cemetery and Crematorium Company Ltd, which included Seafield Crematorium (opened 1939) and Seafield Cemetery (opened 1887).

For over eighty years Edinburgh Crematorium Ltd has provided the bereaved with a professional, caring service at a time when it is most needed.Our classical buildings, set in peaceful, well-tended gardens, create an atmosphere of tradition and respect.

All of our facilities are designed with your needs in mind, and our trained staff ensure that the arrangements you make are completed to the highest professional standard.

Bereavement is a universal experience, which everyone goes through in their own unique way.We hope that the information provided on this website will help you plan and prepare for the funeral service that meets your needs, and those of your family.

The Books of Remembrance for both Warriston and Seafield Crematoria, can be viewed on line via the Warriston or Seafield sections of this website.

Seafield Cemetery has a number of memorials to those who fell in both World Wars. Photographs of the memorials can be viewed on line, by accessing the Seafield, then the Seafield Cemetery section of this website.