Until the end of the eighteenth century, St. Mary's church was the only recorded place of worship in Thatcham, though dissenters had been meeting in private homes in the village for perhaps a hundred years or more. In 1799AD, the house of Moses Fass at Crookham was registered as a Baptist-meeting place, and four years later the Thatcham home of Mrs. Hannah Bailey was certified as a congregational meeting place.
On the 1st December 1804AD, the congregational church erected on land provided by John Barfield in Church Lane, was opened for public worship. Later in the century the Methodist Chapel in Chapel Street was built and more recently the independent mission chapel in Green Lane and the modern Roman Catholic Church on the Bath Road have opened their doors to the rapidly expanding population of Thatcham.
