While flat slab and six panel doors mark the two extremes two three four and five panel doors are all possible.
Story behind 6 panel doors.
In the 18th century some modernizing and improvement of door design came into being.
The cross an open bible.
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 panels as forming the shape of an open book.
It is likely that the symbolism was projected onto them after the style gained popularity.
A favorite for more utilitarian areas the five panel door is composed of horizontal panels top to bottom.
Six panel doors are not specifically christian.
The more panels the more traditional the design.
A three panel door like the ones shown here is appropriate for a more formal and traditional space.
At least references to the christian symbolism post date their invention by over a century.
But the one configuration that.
The common six panel door in which the top four panels are proportioned to delineate a cross and the lower two panels represent the open bible was popular in colonial america and is often called.
Typical six panel doors have a distinctive look with standard size usually measuring 32 by 80 inches.
The 6 panel door is said to represents two christian symbols.
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Some doors had 2 panels some 5 some 6.
By the 1950s of course many interior and even exterior doors had lost all architectural relief and were a single plane of wood either solid and intercut with decorative glazing or for many types of interior doors with a hollow core.
They have two 8 by 10 inch panels at the top with four larger 10 by 24 inch.
The classic six panel door is sometimes known as a cross and bible door due to the apparent symbolism found in the door shape.
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