Coffins and Caskets

Sustainably Sourced Coffins and Caskets

We offer a wide variety of coffins and caskets from the country’s leading craftsmen and manufacturers, all of whom use environmentally friendly materials procured from sustainable sources. View a small selection of the range of coffins and caskets available below.

Coffins & Caskets

Coffin and Casket Natural Materials

Coffins and caskets are made from eco-friendly materials such as willow, bamboo, wool and cardboard, finished in a variety of colours and textures. Working in conjunction with our partners, we can help to celebrate the life of a special person.

Eco Friendly Coffins

Discuss the Coffin and Casket Options

Exact specifications, materials and finishes on coffins and caskets do vary, so we always encourage our families to make an appointment with us to discuss their requirements. That way you can be provided with all the options before making a choice.

Choosing a Coffin or Casket

Choosing a coffin is often one of the hardest aspects of arranging a funeral. For some families it is the most difficult, visual and emotional element associated with discussing the funeral arrangements. We recognise this and will offer as much help as possible in a caring and compassionate manner. Remember, this is a natural part of the grieving process. We offer a wide variety of coffins and caskets from the country’s leading craftsmen and manufacturers.

The coffins and caskets featured below are just a small selection of the hundreds of choices available from our trusted supplier network. Working in conjunction with our partners, we can also create personal, unique and very bespoke picture coffins that help celebrate and commemorate the life of a special person. Whatever you choose, remember that we are here to assist you in each step of the process, with an extensive range that includes the appropriate linings.

Traditional Coffins

Eco Friendly Coffins

Traditional Wooden Coffins

Our traditional coffins are crafted from a mixture of different materials which include beech and pine with oak veneers. More premium options are made from solid oak with routered sides, raised lids and butt end joints, with pricing of these reflecting the increased workmanship and material costs. All options come with brass effect furniture.

Suitable for both burials and cremations, our standard funeral packages include a suitable oak effect coffin, the York, with the option to upgrade to other specifiations if required. The choice of a traditional coffin is personal preference, and depends on how important that aspect of the funeral is to you, or the wishes your loved one.

Eco Friendly Coffins

The York Traditional Coffin

This coffin has a simple light oak veneer with brass effect furniture, our value coffin option.

The Suffolk Traditional Coffin

This coffin has a simple light oak veneer with wooden furniture, another of our value options.

The Laughton Traditional Coffin

This coffin has a simple light oak veneer with bone handle, another of our value coffin options.

Gainsborough Light Traditional Coffin

Classic light oak veneer with double mouldings, brass effect furniture and beading on the lid.

Gainsborough Medium Traditional Coffin

Classic medium oak veneer with double mouldings, brass effect furniture and beading on the lid.

Gainsborough Dark Traditional Coffin

Classic dark oak veneer with double mouldings, brass effect furniture and beading on the lid.

Lincoln Light Traditional Coffin

Classic oak veneer with double mouldings, embossed sides, raised lid and brass effect furniture.

Lincoln Medium Traditional Coffin

Classic oak veneer with double mouldings, embossed sides, raised lid and brass effect furniture.

Lincoln Dark Traditional Coffin

Classic oak veneer with double mouldings, embossed sides, raised lid and brass effect furniture.

The Westminster Traditional Coffin

Traditional solid oak coffin with butt end joints, supplied with brass effect furniture.

The Buckingham Traditional Coffin

Traditional solid oak with routered sides, raised lid, butt end joints, supplied with brass effect furniture.

Environmentally Friendly Eco Coffins and Caskets

Our eco friendly coffins and caskets are beautifully handcrafted from fully natural and biodegradable materials. Highly sustainable and made from renewable sources, these options are ideal for families who are conscious about our impact on nature and sustaining the natural environment.

All of our eco coffins and caskets are crafted by skilled weavers. They are fully natural with no plastic, metals, screws or staples used in their construction. Each natural material is chosen for highly sustainable and renewable attributes, designed to put people, animals, ecosystems and the planet first.

Willow Rainbow Round

The round ended Rainbow coffin has been made by dyeing willow strands first and then weaving these into the shape.

Cerise Banana Casket

Achieve their striking looks through a combination of woven bands of banana, pandanus and rattan dyed in red or black.

Traditional Banana Leaf

Traditional shape banana coffin with banana cord woven around a natural cane framework with interior cardboard construction.

Willow Round

Made from a combination of natural willow hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior construction.

English Willow Traditional

Beautifully handwoven by skilled craftsmen with long family histories in willow weaving, using traditional methods and great attention to detail.

Bamboo Lattice Round

A criss-cross pattern of stripped bamboo bark covers an intricately woven layer of soft bamboo creating a striking contrast.

Pandanus Round

The Pandanus coffins are made from the leaves of a prolific growing plant, a provider of a highly renewable and sustainable material.

Pandanus Traditional

The Pandanus coffins are made from the leaves of a prolific growing plant, a provider of a highly renewable and sustainable material.

Bamboo Invicta Round

Made using a combination of soft bamboo and bamboo bark hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior.

Bamboo Traditional

Made using a combination of soft bamboo and bamboo bark hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior.

Willow Kingsted Round

Made from a combination of natural willow hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior construction.

Willow Kingsted Traditional

Made from a combination of natural willow hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior construction.

Willow Broadwich Round

Made from a combination of natural willow hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior construction.

Willow Broadwich Round

Made from a combination of natural willow hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior construction.

Willow Broadwich Round

Made from a combination of natural willow hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior construction.

Willow Chelington White

Made from a combination of natural willow hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior construction.

Willow Chelington Natural

Made from a combination of natural willow hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior construction.

Willow Chelington Brown

Made from a combination of natural willow hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior construction.

Bamboo Eco Round

Our crafted bamboo coffins are woven from the sustainable and flexible bamboo cane, woven in the traditional way.

Bamboo Lattice Traditional

A criss-cross pattern of stripped bamboo bark covers an intricately woven layer of soft bamboo creating a striking contrast.

Bamboo Eco Traditional

Our crafted bamboo coffins are woven from the sustainable and flexible bamboo cane, woven in the traditional way.

Banana Casket Ebony

Achieve their striking looks through a combination of woven bands of banana, pandanus and rattan dyed in red or black.

Banana Round

Round shape banana coffin with banana cord woven around a natural cane framework with interior cardboard construction.

Banana Traditional

Traditional shape banana coffin with banana cord woven around a natural cane framework with interior cardboard construction.

Willow Round Brown

Beautifully handwoven by skilled craftsmen with long family histories in willow weaving, using traditional methods and great attention to detail.

Willow Round Green

Beautifully handwoven by skilled craftsmen with long family histories in willow weaving, using traditional methods and great attention to detail.

Willow Round Light

Beautifully handwoven by skilled craftsmen with long family histories in willow weaving, using traditional methods and great attention to detail.

Willow Traditional Brown

Beautifully handwoven by skilled craftsmen with long family histories in willow weaving, using traditional methods and great attention to detail.

Willow Traditional Light

Beautifully handwoven by skilled craftsmen with long family histories in willow weaving, using traditional methods and great attention to detail.

Willow Pod Natural

The willow is woven onto a self-supporting frame, which gives the coffins exceptional strength whilst remaining incredibly light.

Willow Pod Light

The willow is woven onto a self-supporting frame, which gives the coffins exceptional strength whilst remaining incredibly light.

Willow Cromer Light

The willow is woven onto a self-supporting frame, which gives the coffins exceptional strength whilst remaining incredibly light.

Willow Cromer Natural

The willow is woven onto a self-supporting frame, which gives the coffins exceptional strength whilst remaining incredibly light.

Highsted Willow Natural

These coffins are handcrafted from the sustainable willow using traditional methods, the willow woven onto a self-supporting frame.

Highsted Willow Light

These coffins are handcrafted from the sustainable willow using traditional methods, the willow woven onto a self-supporting frame.

Willow Round Green

Beautifully handwoven by skilled craftsmen with long family histories in willow weaving, using traditional methods and great attention to detail.

Willow Traditional Green

Beautifully handwoven by skilled craftsmen with long family histories in willow weaving, using traditional methods and great attention to detail.

Willow Traditional Rainbow

The traditional Rainbow coffin has been made by dyeing willow strands first and then weaving these into the shape.

Willow Woodstoke Round

Made of beautiful Somerset grown English willow hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior construction.

Willow Woodstoke

Made of beautiful Somerset grown English willow hand woven, using traditional methods, around a modern solid interior construction.

Eco-Friendly Cardboard Coffins

Our economical cardboard coffins are made from at least seventy percent recycled paper and wood pulp sourced from reputable sustainable forests. Constructed to a special design, these cardboard coffins can carry up to 23 stone in weight. Our basic cardboard coffins come in three different appearances, all supplied with natural rope handles. The white coffin can also be chosen in a different single colour.

An additional option to plain cardboard coffins, families can also choose a picture coffin, with hundreds of designs and patterns available, allowing you to tailor the coffin to your loved one. Did they have a favourite football team? A particular hobby which they were passionate about? Let us know and we’ll try our best to source a suitable style. Cardboard coffins can also be tailored with a custom photo if desired.

Wool Coffins

Wool Coffins and Caskets

A comforting alternative to a traditional coffin or casket, wool coffins are expertly woven just a short distance from us over in Yorkshire. Gentle on the eye and soft to the touch, each coffin is hand crafted on the same premises that has produced the outer woollen cloth for over two hundred years.

Many of our families love wool coffins for the softer and more personalised goodbye that they allow. Suitable for both burial and cremation, the none traditional coffin shape combined with the soft touch feel and finish allow a more relatable and easier experience for those left behind.

Woollen Coffins

A comforting alternative to a traditional coffin, these woollen coffins are gentle on the eye and soft to the touch.

Soft Finish

Suitable for both burial and cremation, the none traditional coffin shape combined with the soft finish allow a more relatable experience.

Blanket Stitching

The wool coffin exterior is finished with a beautiful blanket stitch detail, jute handles and simple wooden toggle fastenings.

Grey Ash Casket

Soft and multifunctional, the ashes are received within a secondary internal box, which can then be removed for scattering or buried.

Childs Wool Coffin

The lovingly woven outer layer combined with the natural cotton inner gives an overall feeling evocative of a moses basket.

Wool Ash Caskets

Ash caskets come with a delicately stitched personalised nameplate, which can be neatly attached to the coffin using two wooden toggles.

White Ash Casket

Once ashes have been scattered the tactile outer can used as a memory box holding precious moments and treasures belonging to the deceased.

Readily Biodegradable

All the materials used in these woolen coffins are readily biodegradable and suitable for cremation and all types of burial.

Artiste Coffins and Caskets

Our artiste range of coffins and caskets offer a high level of personalisation, with the possibility of engraving any name in a choice of fonts, a logo, a favourite slogan or pattern, in any colour and design. Perfect for the most individual of farewells, these coffins and coffins are crafted from a choice of materials including veneered mahogany and oak.

Available in hundreds of different styles, designs and colours, each artiste coffin or casket is made to order, with the engraving, finish and colour completely customisable. A unique and personal tribute made with uncompromising quality, you can even choose internal colours, satin or gloss exterior, and for caskets, a full or split lid.

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With a proud sixty year history of caring for local families through times of bereavement, our qualified funeral directors will always be here for you, treating your loved one as if they were our own.

Gainsborough Funeral Home

Cliff Bradley & Sons
41 Heaton Street
Gainsborough
Lincolnshire
DN21 2EA

01427 810619

Saxilby Funeral Home

Cliff Bradley & Sons
39 High Street
Saxilby
Lincolnshire
LN1 2HA

01522 708888