meeting-stiles

Updated: May 29, 2025

Let the height of a rail be one third of the breadth of a panel, and its cymatium one sixth of the rail. The width of the meeting-stiles should be one half the rail, and the cover-joint two thirds of the rail. The stiles toward the side of the jambs should be one half the rail.

Vitruvius Pollio - The Ten Books on Architecture