Religious Buildings
The present parish church of St Matthew was built in 1858 with financial assistance from the Welsh School (latterly St David's School, now St. James's School) which had just moved to Ashford. It has older internal monuments and the south arch is 12th century. A daughter church to St Matthew was built on the corner of Stanwell Road and Woodthorpe Road, commencing in 1913, in order to serve the needs of the rapidly growing community of dwellings built around the railway station; its original design included a magnificent spire which would have been one of the most significant landmarks in the area but was never built. The church without its spire was completed in 1928 and consecrated to St Hilda. Initially assigned the status of a conventional District under the Parish Church of St Matthew, St Hilda's Church is now an Ecclesiastical Parish.
An imposing Roman Catholic Church designed by the architect Sir Sir Giles Gilbert Scott RA, which is dedicated to St Michael is on the corner of Fordbridge Road and Clarendon Road and the partially completed church was consecrated in 1928. The foundation stone of the building was laid in 1927 at the site. Further work to extend the building was carried out in 1938 but World War II intervened and the building was not completed to the original design until 1960.
There are two methodist churches, on Clarendon Road and in Ashford Common on Felthamhill Road.
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