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Nigel K. Ford Funeral Directors

Serving your family wherever you are in Somerset

Firmly established as the Funeral Directors for the families of Taunton and the surrounding areas of Somerset, Nigel K. Ford is a name you can trust when it comes to compassionate funeral care.

We have four funeral homes serving the town and the wider region of Taunton Deane, providing funeral arrangements for all faiths and cultures, along with humanist and other non-religious services. Located at the heart of our communities we take pride in the high standard of service we offer to you and have offered to families like yours since our first funeral home opened in 1996. We incorporated Thomas Brothers Funeral Directors into our family who have been serving the community since the 1960s. We bring generations of expertise to all we do and promise to provide you with unwavering compassion and care.

Nigel K Ford, your community Funeral Director, is committed to supporting you and your family when you most need it.

01823 662009
Nigel K. Ford Funeral Directors

Our locations

Flowers and monument at Vivary Park in Taunton

Station Road

45 Station Road, Taunton, TA1 1NZ

Quantock Hills Somerset

Creech

North End, Creech St. Michael, Taunton, TA3 5EB

Your Community Funeral Director

At Nigel K. Ford Funeral Directors we are dedicated to providing your loved one with a meaningful celebration of life.

We pride ourselves on our consistently high standards of funeral care, facilities and service. We offer our respect and compassion to you at this difficult time, and we want you to know that we are here to give any advice or support you need.

01823 662009
Nigel K. Ford Funeral Directors

Our services

Explore our funeral packages below, so we can arrange the funeral you have in mind for your loved one.

 

If you’re looking for a traditional or contemporary funeral with a service, you should consider our Attended Funeral. If you want us to arrange a simple cremation without mourners present, our Unattended Funeral may better suit your needs.

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The Unattended Funeral

The Unattended Funeral is a lower cost option that allows family and friends to remember your loved one in their own way, without the need for a traditional service or ceremony.

A tailored funeral

The Attended Funeral

The Attended Funeral provides a tailored and dignified goodbye for your loved one. Whether traditional or contemporary, you can pay your respects in the supportive company of family and friends.

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Memorials

Commemorate your loved one's life with a Memorial to keep their memory alive. Choose from a variety of options, from headstones, urns to memorial plaques, vases, benches, statues, jewellery, and more, allowing you to create something special that reflects their life, love, and cherished memories.

Frequently asked questions

If a loved one has passed away and you need help to arrange a funeral, our Funeral Directors at Nigel K. Ford are here to support you every step of the way. Below are some frequently asked questions about how to arrange a funeral, which you may find helpful. If you have any further questions, please call us anytime on 01823 662009

At Nigel K. Ford, we are proud to be a Dignity Funeral Director. Our funeral business sits in the Dignity family which means we are supported by an organisation that provides stability and holds us to a very high standard of care, facilities and service.

If a loved one has passed, our step-by-step guide will help support you on the actions to take, including getting started on how to arrange a funeral. If you feel that you would benefit from additional support and personal guidance, please get in touch with us and we will talk you through everything.

When someone dies, you should aim to call your Funeral Director as soon as possible, after you have called the doctor. This allows for you to arrange for the deceased to be collected and to be brought into our care as soon as they are ready.

Your loved one will be cared for by our Funeral Directors. Once they have been brought into our care, they will be thoughtfully looked after at either one of our funeral homes or one of our care centres. Your Funeral Director will be able to confirm the details of this so you will know where your loved one is at all times.

If you wish to visit the Chapel of Rest during the time before the funeral, please speak to one of our Funeral Directors who will be happy to arrange a suitable date and time for you to visit. It is important to make an appointment so that the Chapel of Rest is available for you to use and your loved one is prepared for your visit.

If the cause of death means that visiting could be distressing, or if their death was caused by a hazardous illness, you should seek the advice of your Funeral Director.

Having to let people know that someone has passed away can be a very difficult and stressful situation to go through. The way you break the news to people will completely depend on how well you know them and their relationship with the person who has passed away. If you’re in the position of having to inform family and friends, we hope you find this guide to announcing a death useful.

We can take care of helping you to action your loved ones funeral plan, as the process is very straightforward. To get started, please call us on 01823 662009 and we can talk you through what happens next.

We are a member of the National Association of Funeral Directors and as such we abide by The Funeral Director Code. We also have a legal obligation to try and ensure the person who is arranging a funeral has the right to do so, or has permission from those who do. If you are aware that someone has been appointed as the administrator, you should only arrange the funeral with this person's agreement. If there is no Will or Letters of Administration, then the responsibility would pass to the next of kin.

A Memorial is a way of creating a lasting memory to help remember a loved one.

Dignity has been established for over 200 years and is one of the UK’s leading providers of Funerals and with an ‘Excellent’ Trustpilot rating (03/24). We are proud to help our customers every year with a diverse range of Memorial products and services to help remember their loved ones.

We offer a wide range of products – from traditional headstones, kerb sets, urns and benches to remembrance trees, plaques and vases. We also offer more personal and modern options such as jewellery, pin badges and photo related memorial products. As well as completely customised items.

From 9 September 2024, there will no longer be a doctor's fee in England and Wales when arranging a funeral. This is because from this date, all deaths in England and Wales will be independently viewed, either by a relevant coroner or by a Medical Examiner and the cost will be met by the NHS.

A Medical Examiner is a specifically trained independent senior doctor who will scrutinise all deaths across a local area that do not fall under the coroner's jurisdiction. By providing a greater level of scrutiny over the cause of deaths; it is hoped that the introduction of Medical Examiners will make it less likely that unnatural causes of death will go unnoticed; that the number of deaths unnecessarily referred to the coroner will be reduced and that national data about causes of death will be captured with greater accuracy.

Medical Examiners, or Medical Examiner Officers, will also be available to meet with families, or their representatives, if they wish to discuss the cause of death.

Our reviews

4.95
based on 41 reviews
Jon B
25th Jul 2025

Very efficient, thorough and caring

Hetha Copland
23rd Jul 2025

The staff were so helpful and kind. They gave us all the support and time we needed. Especially when you've lost someone really close that's so important. Thanks in particular to Amber.

Caroline Hayden
5th Mar 2025

Carlton Seldon
27th Feb 2025

Expertly, sensitive handling of my father's funeral, they made a difficult time for the family so much easier, special mention must go out to two lovely ladies Yvonne and Amber but also to the whole team. Tim Hodge the celebrant performed an excellent service, I and the family thank you all and we highly recommend you.

Stephen Nicholls
12th Mar 2024

How wonderful in this day and age to find such caring supportive and professional people like Amber and Paul to help us with what is a really awful time. Every aspect of mum's funeral and care was done absolutely smoothly and without a hitch they both took all the worry and stress of sorting it all out for me and they were there on the day to see all was well. I cannot thank them enough or indeed recommend them highly enough for all that they did for me and my mum.

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4 King Edwards Court,
King Edward Square,
Sutton Coldfield,
West Midlands, B73 6AP

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