Whether you are planning a Full Life Celebration or a Simple Cremation, we are here to provide support for you and your family through this process. We offer a free, no-obligation pre-planning meeting to discuss your funeral plans. You can book this here.

Owned and operated by Canterbury families since 1872, Bell, Lamb & Trotter are Christchurch’s oldest established funeral home. Our purpose is to help each family design a unique and personal funeral for their loved one.

If you have any questions please call us on 03 389 7999. We are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Cremation Costs

Our cremation services start from $4902. Let us know your needs and we can help.

Payment Options

Pre-pay your funeral to help at the greatest time of need.

Information Pack

Request a confidential information pack be mailed to your door.

“The Harding family is very grateful to Bell, Lamb, and Trotter, and particularly Andrew Bell, for their excellent and caring service. Every detail was done well – from the advice and support, to the layout and quality of the trifold service sheet; from the live streaming of the requiem mass to relatives around the world, to the Ford 1937 Packard that everyone mentions because it is just completely gorgeous!

“I was blown away to receive a beautifully presented memorial book with the death notice and service sheet reprinted at the front, followed by the messages from people who were able to be at S Michaels for the service. Andrew was able to arrange everything necessary for an ecoburial, too, which was just perfect.”

Emma Harding

Book a Free Pre-Planning Meeting

To book your free, no-obligation pre-planning meeting to discuss your funeral plans, please call us on 03 389 7999 or fill out the form below. We are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

    One Room

    Our online funeral
    streaming service.

    The One Room –  online funeral streaming system combines high quality hardware and cutting edge software to enable us to webcast live events around the world. Events can be streamed out to friends and family who have been issued secure login details via automated email invitations.

    The event recording is also stored for 90 days, and can be viewed at any time from any country.

    Download and archive extension options are available to ensure that an event can be protected and shared for years to come.

    One Room - Online Funeral Streaming Service - Bell, Lamb & Trotter

    There are many reasons why Bell, Lamb & Trotter choose One Room for webcasting, but they include some of these benefits:

    • It allows others to be able to see what your chapel or crematorium looks likes, and to feel a part of the service; seeing the flowers, hearing the music, listening to the eulogy. It gives people who cannot attend, the chance to celebrate the life of a friend or relative along with the other mourners, giving comfort and closure.
    • It is a dignified and unobtrusive form of video recording, so those at the service will be unaffected by the filming.

    One Room is an automated webcasting solution that allows a venue to stream live events to viewers all over the world.

    Bell, Lamb & Trotter is fitted with fixed cameras and specialist hardware. They use tested secure software to book in a service.

    Email invitations are sent out with unique login details, allowing absent loved ones to watch the service.
    At the time of the funeral, the cameras will stream high quality footage of the arrangement over the internet. This footage is then stored online, allowing it to be accessed and watched for the next 90 days. (Further download options are available.)

    You can watch a One Room webcast on any internet equipped computer, laptop, tablet or phone.

    If you are using an iPad or iPhone, you can download our specifically designed free app. There will soon be a designated app for Android operating system smart phones too.

    Up to 512kbps or 0.5mpbs.

    For confidentiality reasons we do not issue codes for funerals. In order to obtain these codes please contact the funeral home (or other venue) or family members directly.

    An archived service is available for 90 days from the date of streaming. There are further extension and download options available, and a reminder email is sent out towards the end of the 90 days to inform that the archive period is finishing.

    Almost as soon as a service is finished it can be extended or downloaded. (It usually takes less than half an hour for the files to be transcoded and available for extension or download after a service has finished.)

    Please note: Only family and friends who have their email addresses added to our official list are eligible to extend or download. One Room is unable to add people to this list. You must contact the Funeral Home directly to be added.

    You can access the extension and download options by visiting www.oneroomfunerals.com and entering in your email address in the login section, and the original six character password you were issued for the funeral.

    The files are roughly sized at 0.5gb per hour of footage.

    The files are MP4 format, and can be saved onto a DVD. Some older players may not recognise MP4 format, and you will need to download a converter.

    Funeral Pre-Arrangement

    Pre-arranged and prepaid funerals can easily be organised and people view this as an investment in the future to hedge against inflation and achieve maximum tax advantages. If the pre-arrangement is for yourself, it is simply the process of considering what funeral arrangements you would like to take place at the time of your death.

    The advantages can be summarised with the phrase “peace of mind”. It gives you and your family members the peace of mind that…

    • your personal wishes are carefully recorded
    • your family are relieved of some of the emotional burden
    • you may amend your personal instructions at any time
    • if you choose to prepay, your money is secure
    • the funeral director of your choice has been nominated

    You may record as much or as little detail as you wish. Your pre-arrangement may be partial or full:

    Partial pre-arrangement: you may choose to record just a few important details – for example whether you want to be cremated or buried, and where you want the service to be held.

    Full pre-arrangement: you may choose to record full and complete details, including choice of casket, flowers, music, content of newspaper notices, etc.

    If you would like to pre-arrange a funeral, we suggest that you begin by considering some of the issues raised above.

    We will gladly advise you in whatever way you require. When you feel ready, make an appointment with one of our Funeral Directors to assist you or complete our online Confidential Funeral Arrangements Form. Once we have a record of your pre-arrangement, it is a good idea to inform your family members, doctor and solicitor that Bell, Lamb & Trotter holds a record of your wishes.

    Request an Information Pack

    If you would like a confidential Information Pack be mailed to your door, please fill out the form below.

      Prepay and Payments

      Pre-paying a funeral is making some payment towards the cost of a funeral some time before the event. This makes the process easier when the time comes.

      What pre-payment options exist?…

      There are three different options that you may consider:

      1. No pre-payment

      You are able to pre-arrange your funeral details and leave all payments until a later date.

      2. Full pre-payment

      Your individual funeral pre-arrangement is itemised and priced according to today’s funeral cost. Full payment of the quoted funeral cost will cover our itemised services at any time in the future, and is your protection against inflation. If there are any changes to the pre-arranged details, extra payment may be required as the cost of the total service will be re-priced at current costs.

      3. Funeral investment

      You may invest any amount you choose above $500 in our own Funeral Trust Fund. At the time of death the investment is closed, and interest is credited to the total. Following the deduction of funeral expenses, residual monies are returned to the estate. If there is a shortfall in the invested amount the estate is billed for the balance.

      Note: To protect any family making a prepaid funeral contribution, we do not accept cash payments. Our preferred method of payment is via internet banking or bank transfer direct to our provider’s bank account.

      Our declaration of trust

      Our declaration of trust is available here and a copy of our trust deed that we have each participant complete is available here.

      Payment Methods

      Payment can be made via:

      • Cash, cheque or credit card at our premises. Credit card payment can also be made over the phone.
      • Direct Debit into our payments account (12-3191-0025297-00) quoting your invoice number.