The middle rail and stile form a cross at the top between four panels and an open bible with both testaments two panels at the bottom.
Panel door patterns cross and bible.
The bottom part represents an open bible.
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In colonial new england the paneled front door of a house in which the stiles and rails of the door form a pattern suggestive of a cross the two lower stiles and rails form a pattern vaguely suggestive of an open book representing the bible.
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If you look at it it does look like a cross.
Old house folklore describes the myth of quaker or christian symbolism in the carpentry design of 6 paneled doors.
See the image above the left door.
Mcgraw hill dictionary of architecture and construction.
Also called a cross and bible door.
It does not take too much imagination to see the shape of a christian cross in the arrangement of the top mullions and intersecting cross rail and only a slightly bigger leap of imagination to see the bottom two.
There is another form if this where it shows it is on the bottom.
See the right door in the image above.
The cross the bible the top.
The classic six panel door is sometimes known as a cross and bible door due to the apparent symbolism found in the door shape.
This morning we learned about the so called cross and bible or christian paneled doors that grace many old homes from our old house aficionado neighbor.
The 6 panel door.