The Soham Baptist Church as it looks today...The earliest recording of Baptist meetings held in Soham found to date is around 1752 having 6 members, the first Meeting House was around 1770 when it is recorded that Mr Eve of Fordham baptized a 16 year old boy called Andrew Fuller and a Joseph Diver on the right hand side of Stone Bridge leading into Soham from Fordham, The meetings were held in a rented wooden barn  with an earthen floor and a thatched roof, the building was located half way down Brook Dam Lane on the right hand side. It was later moved to the other side of Brook Dam Lane, still being used to at least 1783, until a new permanent building was built in 1783 in Clay Street on the present site of the one today. It was opened by Andrew Fuller on 11th October 1783, measuring about 40 feet long by 20 feet wide, later enlarged with a Gallery at one end, It was built by a Mr West, built of steelwork, brick and clay and roofed in thatch.
The photo on the right is believed to be the original Baptist Chapel in Brook Dam Lane, Demolished in May 2004, to make way for new housing.

These two photos show part of the interior of the Barn in Brook Dam Lane, which shows the varnished roof structure inside etc