The Primitive Methodist Chapel in Soham Fen is situated on the West side of Great Fen Drove, and also abutting the lane that leads you down to Fodder Fen, known to-day as Chapel Lane, it is about 3 miles North of the Town of Soham.
It is a subsidiary Chapel of the other Primitive Methodist Chapel in Berrycroft Lane in Soham, the Fen Chapel and the one in Berrycroft are nearly identical in the design of the frontage, but the Fen Chapel being smaller, The Fen Chapel is very near the Fen School, notice how the land around the Chapel has sunk, this is very noticeable on all the buildings in the Fens, since the draining of the Fens, the land drying out, can over the years to be seen to have sunk by several feet, when these buildings were first built, the land lay level to the entrance to these buildings, now some years later, steps have had to be built up to the doorways, as the land has sunk so much outside, you would have a job to step inside,  the Chapel does lay slightly to one side, but this is a normal occurrence of the Fen buildings, the land sinks, but the buildings stand high and proud, its remarkable how they stay standing upright.
The Chapel was built on the site of an earlier Primitive Methodist Chapel, this earlier one was built in 1843 and could seat 80 people, its congregation then being about 40 persons, this earlier building was probably built of wood, as in 1872 a much larger brick building was built, which could seat 164 people, this is the one you can see to-day.

We only noticed two foundation stones, either side of the main entrance, the one on the left inscribed William Bull, and on the right John Collen.

The Fen Chapel closed in the 1990's, and has stood derelict for some years, and is now undergoing a complete restoration, being made into a residential building. In June 2007 we were fortunate to gain access by the Developer, who kindly allowed us to have a look around the building, we managed to rescue some books etc, and take the following photos, the development of the Chapel is being sympathetically done, retaining many of its original features, especially the outside, which should look like new when finished, the feeling of the building has a warm friendly feeling, with a great view of Ely Cathedral in the distance across the flat Fens.

Walking through to the rear of the Chapel, leads you to a doorway, through which takes you into, what seems like a lean-to structure built in brick on the back of the Chapel, with a narrow corridor leading you to the privy, pictured in the photo on the right, looking out the window in this part, you get a great view of the Fen and Ely Cathedral.

The room at the rear of the Chapel, we noticed cupboards of crockery etc, probably used as an area for making cups of tea etc for the Chapel goers, and would probably have been used for meetings for other purposes as well, as there were not many buildings of this size in Soham Fen that the people living there could use for large gatherings, would also probably have been used as a Sunday School, although we can find no record of one down the Fen, one must have existed, there is also a blocked up fire place which you can see in the photo, including the original stained glass windows, still intact.
The Old Organ still stands in the main room of the Chapel, unfortunately it has water damage, due to a leak in the Chapel roof, he has kindly offered it to us, and in turn we have contacted our local museum, if they are not interested, we will find a home somewhere for it, to keep it in Soham, it would be a shame to see it thrown out, unfortunately we do not know anything about organs, it does have handles on the ends for lifting, if anyone out there could tell us any more about it, we would be pleased to hear from you.

Looking towards the entrance of the Chapel, the entrance leading to the interior porch in the centre, the porch we think, having talked with the Developer, is a later addition, as it was pointed out to us, that in no way could you have gotten the organ through this entrance,  it seems the interior porch was probably built after the organ was placed in the Chapel, this interior porch will be removed during the restoration, enabling the removal of the organ, the porch did have a small hole in it, knocked through by the Developer, while we were there, the only way he could get his long planks into the building, I have edited this hole out of the photo, to give the idea what it would have looked like.
The two doors either side of the archway at the back of the Chapel, both lead to the same room at the rear, perhaps this rear room, we spoke of earlier, used to be divided into two rooms, being the necessity of two doors, the white painted archway still has words visible beneath the paint, with remains of old gas lights, one on either side, the windows here are all intact, with what seems to be the original stained glass, the organ can be seen on the left.

The ceiling to the Chapel being entirely wood, with two decorated circular cast iron mouldings still in place, one at either end, in the centre of these mouldings is what looked like the remains of where perhaps gas lights were once fitted.
There was only one heating stove for this room, that we noticed, near the entrance, with steel guards around it, to prevent people from getting to near, with the coal bunker being in the rear corridor leading to the privy, with coal still in it.