3D print the Old Bailey
A free, printable model of the Old Bailey and the streets and buildings of the City of London around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 18 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
18 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.
- The tall block
The court is tall for its footprint, so the upper floors carry much of the silhouette. Use 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers so the vertical lines read, and scale up if the top looks soft.
- Detail flat on the walls
The finest detail sits flat on the facades, where it thins out at small sizes. Full detail suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- One piece with the ground
The Old Bailey 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 Old Bailey 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 Old Bailey
The Old Bailey takes its popular name from the street it faces; formally it is the Central Criminal Court, the City of London courthouse that also holds Crown Court sittings. The street outside follows the line of London's ancient wall and the bailey of its fortifications, which probably gave the street its name. A court has sat there since the sixteenth century at least, back when it was attached to Newgate Prison.
The present main block went up in 1902 from Edward William Mountford's designs, and Edward VII opened it officially on February 27, 1907. Grade II* listing protects its monumental architecture. The words carved above the main entrance call on the court to defend poor children and to punish wrongdoers. F. W. Pomeroy's gilt bronze Lady Justice, made in 1905 and 1906, stands on the dome holding a sword and the scales, and she wears no blindfold.
The Great Fire of London destroyed the earlier courthouse in 1666, and it was rebuilt in 1674; a re-fronting followed in 1734. Between 1674 and 1834 more than 100,000 criminal trials were heard there. Newgate Prison next door closed in 1902, and hangings in the street outside ended in May 1868. Blitz bombing in the Second World War left the building badly damaged, and the Great Hall opened restored in 1952. Donald McMorran and George Whitby designed the South Block, added from 1968 to 1972. Crown Court cases from across Greater London are heard here, and members of the public may watch trials after stringent security checks.
About this model
The Old Bailey is one of more than 4,400 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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