Meadowrest Memorial Gardens

Over twenty years ago, the Meadowbrook congregation of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, saw the need for a burial site outside of the congested Kingston region. This vision was later embraced by the entire United Church, and in 1994 the Meadowrest Memorial Gardens project was established.

The Gardens are located in the Red Pond/Frasers Content/Whittakers Mountain area, off the St. John’s Road in St. Catherine. The beautiful 55-acre rolling countryside grounds are rustic but easily accessible terrain. The business office is at 12 Carlton Crescent, Kingston in the same compound as Webster Memorial United Church. Facilities are available to all denominations and the general public and include single and double vaults as well as urn vaults for the in-earth interment of ashes.

Thanks to a spacious modern chapel with a capacity of over 200, those interring their loved ones in the Gardens, can hold funeralservices nearthe place of interment. Meadowrest provides Internment Data Cards to bereaved families to assist in identifying the specific vaults in which loved ones have been laid to rest. There is a referral service for grief counselling and a newsletter, ‘The Caregiver,’ is published quarterly.

In addition, the Annual Memorial Service held in the chapel on the third Sunday in November and the Annual Funeral Directors Appreciation Function held in April each year are an integral part of the calendar of the Gardens.
Meadowrest Memorial Gardens has an unswerving commitment to:
– Serve clients in a sensitive, caring and comforting setting through highly motivated professional personnel.
– Develop and maintain the Gardens and related services atthe highest possible standards.
– Ensure the viability of the project and integrity in all aspects of its operations in keeping with the tenets of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.