Eastern Shore Chapel Cemetery is open for visitors daily
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. April 1st through October 31st
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily November 1st through March 31st.
Cemetery Office hours are 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
(757) 422-1287
Noel "Skip" Brown, Cemetery Manager
Email the Cemetery Manager
The Eastern Shore Chapel Cemetery was established around 1900 on the grounds just north of the third chapel building which was located directly across the road from Naval Air Station Oceana. With the introduction of jet aircraft into the Navy in the early 1950s, it became necessary to extend the air station's runways to accommodate them, and the chapel was dangerously close to proposed flight paths. After much deliberation, it was decided in 1951 to relocate the chapel and cemetery to its current location on Laskin Road.
Today Eastern Shore Chapel's serenely beautiful cemetery is located on 8 acres of land adjacent to the chapel, amidst a profusion of laurel, dogwood, holly, pine, and oak trees. Our cemetery has not only the available in-ground space, but also a large columbarium and remembrance garden for cremains as well. In 1989 an Infant Memorial Garden and Cremation Garden were created and the first inurnments took place. In 2005, construction began on a columbarium and the first inurnments in the columbarium took place in June, 2006.
Nearly 600 in-ground gravesites are available to all Episcopalians to purchase. Our cemetery is one of the few in the area which allows the use of engraved memorial stones. Each in-ground burial site is limited to hold the remains of two persons: two cremated remains (cremains), two coffin/vault burials, or one coffin burial and one cremain.
With the decreasing number of graves remaining, new sales are limited to communicant Episcopalians or to those persons with a parent or grandparent already interred in the cemetery.
| Eastern Shore Chapel Communicants | $1,300 |
| Convocation 2 communicants | $1,500 |
| Other Episcopalians | $2,000 |
| Persons with a parent or grandparent already interred at ESC | $2,000 |
| Columbarium Niche (for 2 cremains) | ESC Members | $950 |
| All others | $1,000 | |
| Cremation Niche Double Unit (for 2 cremains) | ESC Members | $950 |
| All others | $1,000 |
| Cremation Single Unit, small 15"x21" | $2,850 |
| Cremation Single Unit, large 20"x25" | $2,900 |
| Infant or child, includes memorial stone | $2,900 |
| Random in-ground with memorial on Columbarium wall | $750 |
If you are eligible, we invite you to visit Eastern Shore Chapel Cemetery
and consider it as a final resting place for yourself or your loved ones.
Please contact the Cemetery Manager for more information.
Eastern Shore Chapel c.1689
is a part of the Episcopal Church USA
and the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia
2020 Laskin Road Virginia Beach, Virginia 23454
Phone 757.428.6763 Fax 757.437.8461