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Loretto Chapel is best known for its helix-shaped staircase (nicknamed "Miraculous Stair"), which rises 20 feet (6.1 m) to the choir loft while making two full turns, all without the support of a newel or central pole. The staircase is built mostly out of wood and is held together by wooden pegs, with no glue, nails or other hardware used.
The church was extensively restored by Benjamin Ferrey and George Gilbert Scott in the 1850s, and William Butterfield, ca. 1871. There is a rare example of a double spiral staircase in the tower; others are at the Château de Chambord, France and All Saints' Church, Pontefract. [citation needed] Top of double spiral staircase
The modern 'Bramante' spiral stairs of the Vatican Museums, designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932 The modern double helix staircase, also in the Pio-Clementine Museum, and commonly referred to as the "Bramante Staircase", was designed by Giuseppe Momo, sculpted by Antonio Maraini and realized by the Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry in 1932 and was inspired by the original Bramante Staircase.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar ... Double helix staircase; Double spiral staircase; B. Bramante Staircase; C. Château of Blois; Château de Chambord ...
The architect of the facade is not known for certain, but Wolfgang Lotz suggests that it may have originated in a design by Giacomo della Porta (a follower of Michelangelo), who had built the church of Sant'Atanasio dei Greci, which has similarities, a little earlier. [2] The double staircase in front of the church was by Domenico Fontana. [3]
Spiral staircase (double helix) in the Vatican Museums The concept of stairs is believed to be 8000 years old, and are one of the oldest buildings in architectural history. [ 4 ] The oldest example of spiral stairs dates back to the 400s BC . [ 5 ]
The building took the name of the small adjacent church of San Callisto. Between 1610 and 1618 both the church and the convent were renovated. [3] In 1936 during the pontificate of Pope Pius XI the architect Giuseppe Momo, known for the double helix staircase of the Vatican Museums, designed the construction of a new wing. [2]
Forms of different geometry are contained in each of the four parts that are created: a cylinder in the inside is a helix staircase, a prismatic roof, a quadrangular pyramid and a series of polygonal apertures on the roof of a parallelepiped protrusion on church’s wall. Materials: