Elkhorn United Church

• the building's placement, facing south, highly visible on a prominent corner lot, one block north of Elkhorn's main business street

Key exterior elements that define the church's modest Gothic Revival style include:

• the irregular massing based on a core rectangular volume, with a secondary volume and tower affixed to the west side
• the complex roofline composed of a moderately steep, forward-facing gable roof on the main volume, a cross gable extending west and a hipped roof covering a small north-side extension
• Gothic Revival features such as tall pointed windows, bar tracery in the main (south) window and a steep pyramidal tower roof accented by decorative gables with scrolled bargeboards and finial
• the buff brick cladding with restrained detailing, including pointed arches and drip moulding over the windows, the stringcourse on the tower, etc.
• other features and details such as the high fieldstone foundation, the elevated tower entrance, cornerstones identifying the structure and commemorating church union, return eaves, wood shingles on the north gable ends, etc.

Key elements that define the church's well-appointed interior include:

• the multi-room layout, based on a small church variation of the Akron plan, with a spacious nave in the main volume and a multi-purpose room and office area to the west
• the nave's three sections of curved wooden pews focussed on the central service platform and the choir set in an alcove beneath a broadly arched ceiling
• the large, complex, stained-glass south window with panels
• materials, finishes and features such as the vertical wood wainscotting, generous wood trim and solid wood doors; the large pocket doors between the nave and multi-purpose room; the choir's solid wood divider, anchored by square posts with carved detailing; the oak pulpit; etc.