3D print Durham Cathedral
A free, printable model of Durham Cathedral's three towers and cloister court, with the green hillside, water and nearby buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Durham Cathedral
Durham Cathedral stands in the city of Durham, England, and belongs to the Church of England. The Bishop of Durham has his seat at the cathedral, which serves as the diocese's mother church. Two Anglo-Saxon saints, Cuthbert and Bede, have their shrines inside. The cathedral has Grade I listed status, and with Durham Castle it forms a World Heritage Site. After it was dissolved as a monastery in 1541, a dean and chapter took over its governance.
Its monks came from Lindisfarne Priory, an Anglo-Saxon foundation established around 635 and abandoned in 875 because of Viking raids. In 882 they settled at Chester-le-Street, and in 995 they moved on to Durham. On August 11, 1093, Bishop William of St. Calais and Prior Turgot laid the foundation stone of the new cathedral. The stone for the building was cut from cliffs under the walls and lifted up with winches. The cathedral's chief purpose was to hold the remains of both St. Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede.
A large share of the cathedral as it stands dates from 1093 to 1133, when it replaced the Anglo-Saxon White Church. The building stands as an important example of Romanesque architecture, and its nave ceiling is the oldest surviving pointed rib vault. Later additions include the Galilee chapel on the west side in the 1170s, the western towers of about 1200, an east end enlarged in the Early English Gothic style during the 1230s, and a Perpendicular Gothic central tower raised in two phases during the fifteenth century.
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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West
- Three square towers
- The central tower and the two western towers have small corner turrets and openings near the top. Print friendly adapts these thin details; Full detail keeps them on larger prints, and 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers keep the edges crisp.
- Cloister court and long roofs
- A square cloister court and long, low roofs wrap around the church. A larger print keeps the narrow court and the rows of windows open; at small sizes they can fill in.
- One piece with the ground
- Durham 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. Durham 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
Durham 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 Durham 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. Durham 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.
