3D print Canterbury Cathedral
A free, printable model of Canterbury Cathedral and the buildings, lawns and paths around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury Cathedral serves as the seat of the archbishop of Canterbury, who is the spiritual head of the Church of England and the symbolic leader of the Anglican Communion worldwide. It stands in Canterbury, Kent, at the location of one of England's oldest Christian structures, and it is part of a World Heritage Site. Before the English Reformation it also belonged to a Benedictine monastic community, the Priory of Christ Church, Canterbury.
The cathedral was founded by Augustine in 597, with a dedication to Jesus Christ, the Holy Saviour. A fire destroyed it in 1067, and rebuilding began in 1070 under Lanfranc, the first Norman archbishop. He modeled the new church closely on Saint-Étienne, the abbey in Caen where he had earlier been abbot, and it was dedicated in 1077. On December 29, 1170, knights serving King Henry II murdered Thomas Becket, the archbishop, inside the cathedral, in the north-west transept. Pilgrims visiting his shrine made it necessary to extend the building eastward.
A fire in September 1174 badly damaged the quire, which was rebuilt in the new Gothic style using flying buttresses, rib vaulting and pointed arches, with limestone imported from Caen. The French master-mason William of Sens was replaced by William the Englishman after a fall from scaffolding in 1179. In the late 14th century the Norman nave and transepts, which had lasted until then, were torn down to make room for the structures that stand there.
How it prints
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.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 20 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 25 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 32 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slender pinnacles and spires
- Small pointed pinnacles line the nave walls and the rounded east end. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps each one, which suits a larger print.
- A tall central tower
- The central tower rises well above the nave roof. Printing slowly helps its upper stage, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the tall vertical detail crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Canterbury Cathedral 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. Canterbury Cathedral 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 this model
Canterbury Cathedral is one of more than 2,300 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.
Common questions
Is there a Canterbury Cathedral STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. Canterbury Cathedral grows with the print: about 20 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
