3D print Wells Cathedral
A free, printable model of Wells Cathedral and the lawns, river and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Wells Cathedral
Formally named the Cathedral Church of St Andrew, Wells Cathedral belongs to the Church of England and stands in Wells, Somerset, England. The bishop of Bath and Wells has his seat there, and it is the diocese's mother church. It is a Grade I listed building. Remains of a tenth-century cathedral sit beneath the cloister, south of the present building, and a charter of 766 is the first written record of a church where the present cathedral stands. The font in the south transept comes from an abbey church built in Wells in 705 and is the oldest piece of the existing structure.
The present cathedral is cruciform, with a chapter house on the north side and a cloister on the south. It is largely the product of two building campaigns, from about 1180 to about 1260, then from about 1285 to about 1345. The nave and western transepts date mainly from the first phase and are Early English Gothic. The east end, with its central tower, chapter house, lady chapel and eastern transepts, is Decorated Gothic and keeps much medieval stained glass. Between 1385 and 1410, two towers were added at the west front, and the cloisters were reworked from 1420 to 1508, both in the Perpendicular Gothic style.
The west front holds 300 sculpted figures. The architectural historian John Harvey regards Wells as the first truly Gothic building in Europe. In the 14th century the crossing's central piers were discovered to be settling under the weight of the tower above, and strainer arches, also called scissor arches, were inserted to brace them as a unit.
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 | 15 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 19 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 24 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slender tower pinnacles
- Thin pinnacles rise at the corners of the central tower. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print, and printing slowly helps tall thin parts.
- Dense west front
- The west front is packed with narrow arched windows and niches. A larger print size and layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep that fine detail crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- Wells 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. Wells 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
Wells 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 Wells 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. Wells Cathedral grows with the print: about 15 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.
