The Castle

Read the building room by room

Leap is not a single construction phase. The tower, later wings, Priest’s House, inserted openings, altered floor levels and restoration work form a layered architectural record.

Architecture

Interior Layout

Architectural overview: cutaway, room sequence and matched historical/current imagery.

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Architecture + folklore

Bloody Chapel

Separate the physical upper chamber and oubliette from the stories attached to them.

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Architecture

Priest’s House

Construction history, surviving fabric and reported experiences.

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Original stairway at Leap Castle — Original stairway

Construction & remodelling

A building repeatedly reworked

The construction record describes cannon damage, stair rebuilding, a bartizan, the Priest’s House, Darby-era Gothic remodelling, the uncovering of hidden spaces and successive twentieth-century restoration work.

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From the earlier archive

Architecture & reconstruction

ArchitectureConstruction & Remodelling

Full construction and restoration account.

ArchitectureInterior Layout

Full inventory-derived description plus the preserved room notes.

Upper chamberBloody Chapel

Complete old page plus the newer room-based interpretation.

Northern rangePriest’s House

Preserved testimony and architectural context.

Reconstruction3D Rendering of Leap Castle 1500s

Earlier reconstruction text and images, explicitly labelled interpretive.