
The
Primitive Methodists built a chapel south of Bury Croft in Berrycroft
Lane in 1841, seating 250 which in 1851 had average afternoon and
evening attendances of 230, and had a resident minister living in
Berrycroft Lane in 1871, in 1843 they also built a chapel on the west
side of Great Fen Drove, a subsidiary chapel with 80 seatings. attended
in 1851 by upto 35-40 people. Rebuilt in 1872 in brick with 164
sittings, it was served in 1897 by a local preacher. The Soham Chapel
employed a Soham pork butcher as preacher in 1881, in 1869 they rebuilt
their main chapel in Berrycroft in grey brick trimmed in red, a gallery
was installed in 1883. A Sunday school was erected next door in 1890,
in the 1850's the chapel had belonged to the Primitive Methodist's Ely
circuit, but in 1886 they started a new one centred on Soham, the
chapel was refurbished in the 1940's when a vestry was added. from the
1980's they shared their minister with six other chapels, including the
one in Great Fen Drove, the Soham Chapel is still in use today.