3D print King Alfred's Tower
A free, printable model of King Alfred's Tower, a tall triangular brick tower with round corner turrets, on its hill above the surrounding countryside, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
King Alfred's Tower 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.
- Real height
- 49 m
- On a 160 mm print
- 14 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
49 m of King Alfred's Tower, 14 mm on your shelf
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.
- Open top and corner turrets
The tower is hollow, with an open roof walk and three round corner turrets. Print friendly adapts the thin parapets and balcony railing; a larger print keeps the openings from closing up.
- Slender stair turret and cone
One corner rises into a stair turret, balcony and tall stone cone, the finest vertical in the model. Use 0.12–0.16 mm layers and print slowly so it stays crisp.
- One piece with the ground
King Alfred's Tower 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. King Alfred's Tower 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 King Alfred's Tower
King Alfred's Tower is a folly on the Stourhead estate in Somerset, England, near the border with Wiltshire. The tower occupies Kingsettle Hill and is in the care of the National Trust. Henry Hoare II conceived it in the 1760s as a memorial to the close of the Seven Years' War with France and to the crowning of King George III. It was built close to the reputed site of Egbert's Stone, where Alfred the Great is said to have gathered the Anglo-Saxons in the year 878, ahead of the Battle of Edington.
The Palladian architect Henry Flitcroft supplied the design in 1765. Work started in 1769 or early 1770 and finished in 1772; the cost was estimated between £5,000 and £6,000. The brick structure has Chilmark stone dressings and is 49 meters (161 ft) high. Its triangular plan has a hollow center, with round projections at each corner, and a spiral staircase of 205 steps in the corner furthest from the entrance leads to a viewing platform.
In 1944 an airplane struck the tower in fog and damaged its top 10 meters (33 ft). In 1986 a Wessex helicopter lifted a 300 kg (660 lb) stone block into place at the top, and the statue of King Alfred was repaired at the same time. The south-east face carries a Gothic-arched entrance, the statue and a dedication inscription. The tower is a Grade I listed building.
About this model
King Alfred's Tower 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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