3D print York Minster
A free, printable model of York Minster's central and western towers and long roofs, with the green grounds, paths and city buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About York Minster
York Minster stands in York, North Yorkshire, England, and is an Anglican cathedral. The archbishop of York, holder of the second-highest office in the Church of England, has his seat there, and the minster serves as the mother church of both the diocese and the province of York. Its dean and chapter administer it. It is both a scheduled monument and a Grade I listed building. The title minster goes back to the Anglo-Saxon period, when it meant a missionary teaching church; it has since become an honorific.
York's first recorded church was a wooden building put up in a hurry in 627 so that Edwin, King of Northumbria, could be baptized. Work on a Norman cathedral began in 1080. Walter de Gray, made archbishop in 1215, ordered a Gothic structure to rival Canterbury, and building began in 1220. The central tower collapsed in 1407, and a replacement tower went up from 1420. The western towers followed between 1433 and 1472, the year it was declared complete and consecrated.
The transepts are Early English Gothic, the nave and chapter house are Decorated Gothic, and the eastern arm and central tower are Perpendicular Gothic. Most of the minster's medieval stained glass remains in place, a notable survival compared with other European churches. The east window, which shows the Last Judgment, holds the world's largest expanse of medieval stained glass. The north transept's Five Sisters window is made up of five lancets filled with grisaille glass, each taller than 53 feet (16.3 m).
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 | 19 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 24 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 31 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Pinnacles on the towers
- Small pinnacles crown the central tower and the two western towers. Print friendly adapts these thin points to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on larger prints, and printing slowly helps the tips.
- Window tracery and long roofs
- Rows of tall pointed windows run along the nave and transepts under long ridged roofs. These shallow details stay clearer at larger print sizes and with 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- One piece with the ground
- York Minster 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. York Minster 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
York Minster 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 York Minster 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. York Minster grows with the print: about 19 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.
