I left it for 24 hours to give the glue plenty of time to dry (in view of the low temperatures). Then I knocked the style gently back onto the rest of the door:
And when it was nice and tight, I put the pegs back in. I only had to remake one of them.
The panel looks (I think) much as it did before it was broken:
And with the door back where it came from you can hardly see the damage. I cleaned up the lock mechanism, and replaced the old nail with a short length of thick copper wire. This isn't ideal, as it will gradually cut through, but all my steel pins were over at the Fort. It'll last a few years though I expect. And the lock works nice and easily now: it had some very sticky old oil inside it previously.
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