Who We Are
The Columbaria Company are Kingston-upon-Hull based after-cremation memorial specialists and are part of the Odlings Group.
With a cutting-edge design and production team, we supply memorial and design solutions to local authorities and private crematoria suiting all budgets, spaces, and requirements. We offer one of the widest ranges of hand crafted, solid granite, metal, and porcelain memorials an in the UK, along with an unrivalled design and inscription service. At our factory in Hull: we create, we design, we build, and we supply. Our expert craftspeople can realise any ideas you have to produce a 100% unique memorial. From landscape design and planning to memorial fixing and maintenance, our in-house team have got it covered. We are proud to deliver top-quality customer service from initial enquiries to post-fitting maintenance. We aim to transform memorial spaces and how the public perceive them.
Supporting You at Every Step
We are proud to deliver top-quality customer service from initial enquiries to post-fitting maintenance. Aiming to provide the gold standard in after cremation memorials and service. Our friendly team are happy to guide you through our products and make suggestions most relevant to your needs. From small porcelain memorials to big landscape design projects, our expertise and experience is well suited to deal with a wide range of solutions.
Creative Design Team
Always looking to the future of your grounds, longevity of design and taste is heavily considered in all parts of the design phase. Our creative design team are used to working with all budget types, from small parish council memorial fittings to large-scale installations.
Production Team
At the heart of Columbaria is our production team, all the memorials that pass through here go through the very capable hands of our team of sandblasters and artists. Our team can find themselves engraving and gilding personalised inscriptions to skilfully painting a wide range of motifs onto memorials, bespoke if desired. The production team specialises in adding value to your memorials making them look great while creating an excellent revenue stream for your memorial business.
Sustainability & The Environment
Our premises in Hull have had solar panels fitted to the office and factory buildings. Reducing our reliance on fossil fuel energy whilst meeting the energy efficiency requirements of our clients. We also recycle the water used in production processes and have invested in a wood reclamation system to help heat our buildings.
Meeting Room & Training Facilities
We believe the best way to connect with people in our industry is through physical hands-on experience with the memorial products. The people who have designed and produced the memorial can guide you through our processes to gain valuable insight.
Transparency in our operations is important to us in developing close relations. While visiting us you can expect to be offered a full site tour, meeting the faces behind the processes from our factories to our design office. Learn our granite painting and porcelain printing techniques hands-on. Take your creations away as a memento of your day with us.
Our training is incredibly useful for those in a wide range of roles across the industry. From management staff, memorials advisors to salespeople – understanding the products you sell unlocks your potential.
Also welcome are private meetings in our space for those in the memorials/deathcare industry. We understand that not everybody has the space for larger meetings, we are more than happy to share and host you and your teams.