The Independent Chapel, later the Congregational, derived from a dissenting group already well established by the 1690's, and was combined with the Burwell congregation that had been founded by a preacher named George Doughty in 1692, Sunday services were being held in Soham, recorded from 1696 onwards as well as Burwell,  George Doughty later concentrated on Soham, and his Burwell  followers broke away from Soham in 1712,  he had 200 followers in 1716, Doughty died in 1738. His then dwindling congregation, which increasingly recruited from baptized children rather than adults, broke up, it was re-established in 1762 having friendly relations with the Isleham one, Sohams  minister then died in 1782, Robert Root the next minister registered in 1803 the Independent meeting house built to replace a barn, at which he served until 1827. The present chapel was built in 1841, in Cocks Lane later called Station Road, built of grey brick, its sides have four bays, all with square headed windows, in two storeys, the three bayed front has a pediment over pilasters, with a wooden doorway on Ionic columns. A smaller building built in 1881 adjoining to the north-west became a Sunday school. The average attendance in 1851 at three of its Sunday services was 400 in the morning to about 500 in the evening, and 50 - 60 Sunday school children,  its membership gradually declined from 90 - 100 from 1900 to 1920, and only 50 - 60 in the 1920's and 1930's,  declining to about 35 after 1945. When it joined the United Reformed Church in the 1970's, with only 19 members, and by 1985 only 10, the chapel was closed in 1994 with only 5 members left, and went up for sale in 1997, now a private residence.