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Le château en bref
Château de Saintines (Oise) comprises a sixteenth-century residential château and an older keep-gatehouse. The lordship was founded in the eleventh century by Thibaut I, Count of Senlis; Pierre de Cuignières held it from 1320 until his death in 1356. Heavily damaged during the Hundred Years' War, the château was rebuilt for Louis Devaux, the date 1513 being the one retained. The keep commands the entrance to the cour d'honneur, now laid out as a parterre, which is reached by a bridge: beneath a depressed-arch gateway, it contains a tall vaulted armoury with ribbed vaults, a first floor fitted out as a steward's residence during the Restoration, a sixteenth-century fireplace on the second floor, then a crenellated wall-walk with machicolations and a dovecote under the roof. The new wing extends to the east. Only the keep is listed as a monument historique, since 23 February 1951. The wooded estate remains private property.