Plans for cross and bible door?

[John Dorough]

A friend wants to build a colonial six panel door commonly known as a cross and bible or Christian door. Often used on exterior doors in colonial times to home was inhabited by Christians. I have looked for construction plans here and on other sites, but to no avail.

Any ideas or links to such plans?

Thanks,

John

[Pat Germain]

The closest example I have seen is the four panel door David Marks built on a Season 5 episode of Wood Works. You can see it here:

http://www.djmarks.com/woodworks/502.asp

The plans are available for that door and it wouldn't be hard to modify it for six panels.

I also recall Norm making a door on an episode of NYW awhile back. You might try the NYW web site as well.

http://www.newyankee.com/index.php

His door was likely a Colonial example. Almost all of Norm's projects have a DVD and plans available.

Edit: Here's a link to Norm's door:

http://www.newyankee.com/getproduct.php?0702

[Lee Schierer]

I found this description:

"Frame-and-Panel
A style of door construction that features vertical wood stiles and horizontal rails that form one or more frames around thinner recessed inner panels. Doors usually have between one and eight panels, and the door is often referred to by the number of panels it contains. Introduced as a technical improvement over earlier plank-style doors, this method reduced the seasonal expansion and contraction of wood doors. It came into fashion during the Georgian period in the early 1700’s and remains the dominant method of construction today. 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 a Colonial door, or Christian door, or cross-and-Bible door."

Here's another site that shows one, near teh bottom of the first page:

cross & bible door (http://books.google.com/books?id=G6bwEDoS6dAC&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=cross+%26+bible+door&source=web&ots=QRKLcEl-CD&sig=hdptkWlgjBtl058Rgd5Dsf8_cl4&hl=en)