3D print Manchester Town Hall
A free, printable model of the Gothic town hall's clock tower, corner spires and chimney-lined roofs, with an open square and tightly packed buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Manchester Town Hall
In Manchester, England, Manchester Town Hall is a municipal building in the neo-Gothic style of the Victorian era. Manchester City Council uses it as its ceremonial headquarters. It faces Albert Square on its north side and St Peter's Square on its south, where Manchester Cenotaph stands opposite the southern entrance. Alfred Waterhouse designed it, and it was completed in 1877. A clock tower 85 m (280 ft) high dominates the exterior and holds Great Abel, the clock bell.
Planning began in 1863, with Manchester Corporation insisting on a building at least equal to any similar one in the country. A competition drew 137 entries, and Waterhouse was appointed architect on April 1, 1868, even though his proposal ranked fourth for design and aesthetics; his design was judged far better in quality of architecture, layout and handling of light. Mayor Robert Neill laid the foundation stone on October 26, 1868. The work lasted nine years and took 14 million bricks. When Queen Victoria refused to attend, Mayor Abel Heywood, the project's champion, opened it on September 13, 1877.
The building is an example of the Victorian Gothic revival, drawing on 13th-century Early English Gothic, with low rib-vaulted ceilings and tall arched windows as its most prominent Gothic features. Waterhouse made the structure fireproof with concrete and wrought-iron beams. For the facades he chose Spinkwell Stone and Bolton Woods Stone, quarried in Bradford Dale, because he judged they would resist Manchester's atmosphere. The town hall has been a Grade I listed building since February 25, 1952.
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 | 24 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 30 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 38 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Clock tower and slim spire
- The clock tower ends in a slim spire with small pinnacles. Print friendly adapts these thin parts to your print scale; Full detail keeps them. Print slowly with good cooling so the point stays sharp.
- Chimneys and corner spires
- Many small chimneys and corner spires line the roofs. A larger print and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep them distinct.
- One piece with the ground
- Manchester Town Hall 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. Manchester Town Hall 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
Manchester Town Hall 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 Manchester Town Hall 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. Manchester Town Hall grows with the print: about 24 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.
