The bottom part represents an open bible.
Panels on a door meaning.
A stile is a length of wood positioned vertically on a door.
See the right door in the image above.
Each of these panels will fit together in order to create the finished door.
There is another form if this where it shows it is on the bottom.
The panels of a classic six panel door are usually three pairs of different sizes.
Panel doors versus flush doors.
So just what is a panel door.
Their name essentially tells you what they are the door is crafted not of one single piece of wood or other material but instead is comprised of panels.
By allowing the wood panel to float it can expand and contract without damaging the door.
The cross the bible the top.
Wood will expand and contract across the grain and a wide panel made of solid wood could change width by a half of an inch warping the door frame.
The flat panels of the door fit between its stiles and rails.
The design of a panel door features stiles and rails.
Rails are lengths of wood that run horizontally across a door.
A panel door constructed with panels usually shaped to pattern installed between the stiles and rails that form the outside frame of the door.
For example a six panel door will be made up of six inset rectangles or squares within the door.
Alternatively a flush door has a flat smooth surface without the elaborate design work of a panel door.
The 6 panel door.
Panel doors are and have been very popular for quite some time.
Some doors had 2 panels some 5 some 6.
These are the large flat areas of the door that float within the spaces created by the frame members.
Panels are made slightly smaller than the available space within the frame to provide room for movement.
If you look at it it does look like a cross.
The top part represent a cross.
Noun a distinct portion section or division of a wall wainscot ceiling door shutter fence etc especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
A comparatively thin flat piece of wood or the like as a large piece of plywood.
But the one configuration that seems to have taken on a bit of a legend is the 6 panel door that has come to be called a cross bible door or christian door.
See the image above the left door.
Panel definition is a schedule containing names of persons summoned as jurors.
In the 18th century some modernizing and improvement of door design came into being.
For visual balance the largest panels tend to be in the middle with the smaller panels at the top and the bottom.
A style of door construction that features vertical wood stiles and horizontal rails that form one or more frames around thinner recessed inner panels.