3D print St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
A free, printable model of the cathedral's cross-shaped plan, tower and tall spire, with the green space, roads and tightly packed buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
In Dublin, Ireland, St Patrick's Cathedral, called Ard-Eaglais Naomh Pádraig in Irish, serves as the Church of Ireland's national cathedral. Unusually, it is no bishop's seat: the Archbishop of Dublin sits at nearby Christ Church Cathedral, about 400 meters away. Since 1870 it has been the Church of Ireland's designated national cathedral for all of Ireland, and its chapter draws members from each of the church's 12 dioceses. The cathedral's best-known dean was Jonathan Swift.
It is described as the largest church in Ireland. The basis of the present building dates from 1191 to 1270, although little of the earliest work survives apart from the baptistry. The rebuilding followed the Early English Gothic style and ran at least to a rededication in 1254, and a Lady Chapel followed around 1270. After a fire, the tower and the west nave were rebuilt in the years 1362 to 1370. The tower is called Minot's Tower after Thomas Minot, who was Archbishop of Dublin from 1363 to 1375 and oversaw the rebuilding.
From its earliest years the site has suffered water seepage and floods from branches of the River Poddle that surround it. As late as the 20th century the water table was reported to be within 2.3 m (7.5 ft) of the floor, so there was never a crypt or basement. The English Reformation took effect at St Patrick's from about 1537, and it became an Anglican church, of the Church of Ireland. In 1311 the cathedral became the founding site of the Medieval University of Dublin, whose first Chancellor was William de Rodyard, the cathedral's dean. The university never thrived and was shut down at the Reformation.
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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- Slim tapering spire
- The tower carries a tall, narrow spire. Print friendly adapts the thin tip to your print scale; Full detail keeps it. Print slowly with good cooling so the point stays sharp.
- Pinnacles and pointed windows
- Small pinnacles and narrow pointed windows line the walls. A larger print and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep them readable.
- One piece with the ground
- St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 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. St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 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
St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 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 St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 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. St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 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.
