II-listed Ebenezer Strict Baptist Chapel at Ripley has been open since 1812, and a newly established group (New Life Baptist Church) owns a combined church and community centre in Stoughton. Methodist chapels were built in several villages in the 19th century, and the Methodist Statistical Returns published in 1947 recorded the existence of nine chapels of Wesleyan origin in the present-day borough, along with a single Primitive Methodist church on Chertsey Street in central Guildford. As well as ex-Wesleyan chapels in central Guildford (North Street) and the suburb of Stoughton, the villages of Ash, Ash Vale, Effingham, Normandy, Ripley, Shalford and West Horsley had one each. Effingham and West Horsley are still open, and a new Methodist church was built in 1955 to serve a new housing estate in Merrow, but the others have closed; the buildings in Ash Vale, Ripley and Shalford survive in alternative uses. A second Primitive Methodist chapel was extant in 1914, but had fallen out of use by the time the Statistical Returns were compiled. Guildford town centre's old Wesleyan chapel stood alongside its Congregational equivalent on North Street until the 1960s, when both were demolished; a new Methodist church was built, but in 2013 the congregation moved out and started worshipping at St Mary's Church as part of a formal partnership between the Anglican and Methodist Churches. The chapel at Chertsey Street was sold to Baptists in 1953. Building materials for churches vary across the borough. Good quality stone has never been plentiful in Surrey, but the area around Guildford yielded sarsens and puddingstone: these were sometimes used in the construction of churches, as at Worplesdon and Ripley respectively. Bargate stone was quarried on a small scale around Guildford town and Godalming, and it was used to build churches at Burpham, Compton, Normandy, Chilworth (St Martha-on-the-Hill), and Shackleford, as well as St Nicolas Church, Guildford and the tower at St Lawrence's Church, Seale. "Irregular veins" of carrstone also occur locally in the Lower Greensand, and it can be seen (albeit obscured by rendering) at Wisley church. The "curious local building practice" of galleting—placing pieces of carrstone or flint into the mortar surrounding blocks of masonry—is in evidence at Pirbright. Most common, though, was the use of flint. The prevalence of this hard stone around the North Downs made it "the obvious material to use" for medieval churchbuilders in Surrey. Flints were often laid roughly