Editing Ashtead (section)

===St Michael's Catholic Church===
[[File:St Michael's RC Church, The Marld, Ashtead.JPG|thumb|St Michael's Catholic Church]]
The first regular Catholic masses to be held in Ashtead since Elizabethan times took place in the Constitutional Hall in Barnett Wood Lane in 1942.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.stmichaelashtead.org.uk/parish-history-ch2.php |title= Chapter 2: Catholic life up to 1942 |last= McAllister |first= Monica |orig-date= April 1997 |publisher= St Michael's Catholic Church |access-date= 22 February 2021 |archive-date= 4 October 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161004050027/http://www.stmichaelashtead.org.uk/parish-history-ch2.php |url-status= live }}</ref> Two years later a bombed-out house in Woodfield Lane was purchased and the congregation began meeting in the corrugated iron garage on the site, replaced in 1947 by a wooden building.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.stmichaelashtead.org.uk/parish-history-ch3.php |title= Chapter 3: Mawmead Shaw and the first chapel |last= McAllister |first= Monica |orig-date= April 1997 |publisher= St Michael's Catholic Church |access-date= 22 February 2021 |archive-date= 4 October 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161004051603/http://www.stmichaelashtead.org.uk/parish-history-ch3.php |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.stmichaelashtead.org.uk/parish-history-ch4.php |title= Chapter 4: Rushmere and the hut chapel |last= McAllister |first= Monica |orig-date= April 1997 |publisher= St Michael's Catholic Church |access-date= 22 February 2021 |archive-date= 1 October 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161001020927/http://www.stmichaelashtead.org.uk/parish-history-ch4.php |url-status= live }}</ref>

The foundation stone of St Michael's Catholic Church was laid on 1 July 1967 and construction work was completed in October of the same year.<ref name=StMichael10>{{cite web |url= https://www.stmichaelashtead.org.uk/parish-history-ch10.php |title= Chapter 10: The new church is opened |last= McAllister |first= Monica |date= April 1997 |publisher= St Michael's Catholic Church |access-date= 22 February 2021 |archive-date= 4 October 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161004050830/http://www.stmichaelashtead.org.uk/parish-history-ch10.php |url-status= live }}</ref> The architect was Eduardo Dodds<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.stmichaelashtead.org.uk/parish-history-ch6.php |title= Chapter 6: The pressing need for a permanent church |last= McAllister |first= Monica |date= April 1997 |publisher= St Michael's Catholic Church |access-date= 22 February 2021 |archive-date= 1 October 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161001021717/http://www.stmichaelashtead.org.uk/parish-history-ch6.php |url-status= live }}</ref> and the [[altar (Catholic Church)|altar]] and [[baptismal font|font]] were designed by Joseph Cribb.<ref name=StMichael10/> The church hall was opened in 1983.<ref name=Stuttard_1995_p173>{{harvnb|Stuttard|1995|p=173}}</ref>