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.
Panel door patterns cross and bible.
Mcgraw hill dictionary of architecture and construction.
The cross the bible the top.
Also called a cross and bible door.
If you look at it it does look like a cross.
It was created from the original cross design pattern but this customized version has a dove and bible added.
See more ideas about stained glass stained glass patterns stain glass cross.
The classic six panel door is sometimes known as a cross and bible door due to the apparent symbolism found in the door shape.
See the image above the left door.
The 6 panel door.
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.
There is another form if this where it shows it is on the bottom.
The top part represent a cross.
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.
The bottom part represents an open bible.
Old house folklore describes the myth of quaker or christian symbolism in the carpentry design of 6 paneled doors.
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.