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.
Panel door meaning.
A stile is a length of wood positioned vertically on a door.
A style of door construction that features vertical wood stiles and horizontal rails that form one or more frames around thinner recessed inner panels.
The cross the bible the top.
The basic idea is to capture a floating panel within a sturdy frame as opposed to techniques used in making a slab solid wood cabinet door or drawer front the door is constructed of several solid wood pieces running in a vertical or horizontal direction with exposed endgrains.
The bottom part represents an open bible.
Each of these panels will fit together in order to create the finished door.
A panel door constructed with panels usually shaped to a pattern installed between the stiles and rails that form the outside frame of the door.
Rails are lengths of wood that run horizontally across a door.
Alternatively a flush door has a flat smooth surface without the elaborate design work of a panel door.
See the right door in the image above.
The flat panels of the door fit between its stiles and rails.
If you look at it it does look like a cross.
Definition of panel door.
Generally panel door comes in following types.
See the image above the left door.
A door having panels framed by stiles and rails of greater thickness compare flush door.
The top part represent a cross.
Panel doors are and have been very popular for quite some time.
If you look at a photo of a 6 panel door you can easily see how the framing of the top 4 panels resembles a cross.
And with perhaps a lot more imagination you can visualize the 2 smaller panels at the bottom as the pages of an open bible.
Thus the cross bible or christian door.
Doors usually have between one and eight.
The 6 panel door.
A comparatively thin flat piece of wood or the like as a large piece of plywood.
The design of a panel door features stiles and rails.
Frame and panel construction also called rail and stile is a woodworking technique often used in the making of doors wainscoting and other decorative features for cabinets furniture and homes.
In a panel door the construction consists of vertical lengths of wood called stiles and horizontal lengths of wood called rails.