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The Primitive Methodist Chapel
Berrycroft Lane, Soham



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Primitive Methodist chapel sohamPrimitive Methodist chapel sohamThe 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.










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