United Church was designed as a Gothic Country Church beautifully made; wonderfully built with a very large Gothic window that contained all the enhancements, window tracery, cusps, quatrefoil and label molding. The sanctuary rested on the large presence of the church hall or basketball floor. The church had a single gabled roof with exceptional tile covering it. It had neither belfry nor spire. The church was on the northwest corner of South 29th and Scott Streets. To its left and attached to it was the educational wing where all activities would take place with the exception of Sunday Service, and weddings. The activity section was three stories high with a full kitchen in the basement, meeting halls and a dressing room for sports, and a shower room.
The sanctuary was a beautiful place. It was gracious. It in some ways caught the English dark wood mode with its sturdy pews and lovely altar. During the week when the sanctuary was unused I would find it a place of serenity and calmness. The sanctuary was so simply done and so skillfully managed in its natural staging of light and shadows that at times I felt breathless.
The impact of United Church on the lives of my friends and me is something I will relate later on.