The present fellowship started as a Primitive Methodist Society, part of the Sway Circuit, in 1863. (probably March as we always have celebrated Chapel/Church anniversary in that month) The Superintendent minister at the time was Rev. John Wright.

They met in a small building, possibly wooden, which stood on the site of "Roselands" at the rear of the present Cadnam Police house. A more permanent building was built on land purchased in August 1865 and the old site and building were sold as a dwelling.

The 1865 chapel was built on land on the western boundary of the present police house, and was formerly a piece of unfenced wasteland, part of the New Forest.

This was our home for the next one hundred years, until increased traffic using the popular A31 holiday route to the South Coast, became a distraction. Then we explored other venues. In 1965 we relocated to our present building; this was formerly the Congregational Church.

For some years the old chapel by the roundabout was retained and used as a hall.

On Saturday 11th March 1978, our present church hall was opened. This replaced the original schoolroom at the rear of the main building. The old chapel was then sold and two houses were built on the site, one of which is called "Chapel House".

In about 1800, itinerant preachers from Romsey Independent Church opened a preaching station in a cottage at Winsor, but persecution closed this meeting place.

At Cadnam "a good woman named Stephenson" opened her house to the Wesleyans {A discipline of Methodism} who continued to preach there until the place was too small for the members. An offer of a piece of ground at the back of her house was made (our present site), for the purpose of building a church. A small building was erected in 1804 and was used for some years for worship. Eventually the building was sold back to Mrs. Stephenson who repainted it, and reopened the chapel for worship with the help of a Mr. James Newman, a layman from Romsey, who read the Liturgy of the Church of England until 1834.

In 1834, Rev. William Bathurst Woodman bought the chapel, as he was anxious to restore non-conformist services in the village. With the help of Rev. John Reynolds of Romsey, "vested it in trust in Chancery in the usual manner for the use of a Congregation of Protestant Non-conformists of the Independent Denomination".

The Congregationalists at about this time constructed the present main church building. The Cadnam Congregationalists used the chapel until it’s closure in June 1964.