3D print the Baptistère Saint-Jean
A free, printable model of the Baptistère Saint-Jean in Poitiers, with the surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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Baptistère Saint-Jean in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- On a 160 mm print
- 5 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
5 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Fine facade ornament
The front has a pediment with rows of tiny arches, plus a small cone-roofed turret and a bell gable. A larger print keeps this ornament readable; Print friendly adapts the smallest parts at small sizes.
- One piece with the ground
The Baptistère Saint-Jean is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Baptistère Saint-Jean takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Baptistère Saint-Jean
The Baptistère Saint-Jean, or Baptistery of St John, stands in Poitiers, France, as a Roman Catholic church. It has a reputation as France's oldest surviving Christian building and ranks as one of the foremost examples of Merovingian architecture. Its central part was built around 360 as a civil building, on top of the substructures of Roman buildings demolished in 276. In the 6th century a tank for baptism was added, since baptism then involved total immersion.
Visigoth occupation in the fifth century left the building badly damaged. After Clovis I defeated Alaric II at the Battle of Vouillé in 507, a restoration began that added three apsidioles and an apse. By the tenth century it had fallen into disrepair; the narthex was given its polygonal shape, and the pool used for baptism was filled in, with fonts taking its place once immersion was abandoned. It then served as a parish church. Frescoes from the twelfth to fourteenth century survive, including Christ's ascension and peacocks.
It was abandoned in 1791 amid the French Revolution, then sold as national property and used as a warehouse. A public subscription saved it from demolition and made possible its purchase back in 1834. A restoration followed in the mid-20th century, and it houses a small museum with stone sarcophagi from between the fifth and seventh centuries.
About this model
The Baptistère Saint-Jean is one of more than 4,900 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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