Château de Thiers-sur-Thève

En un regard

Le château en bref

Beside the Thève, on the edge of the Forest of Chantilly, the ruins of the Château de Thiers-sur-Thève are among the most impressive castle remains in the south of the Oise. The castle was built around 1250–1260 by Thibault de Beaumont-Gâtinais and his wife Jeanne, then sold to Renaud de Nanteuil, Bishop of Beauvais, whose successors made it a country residence. It had an almost square plan of about 57 metres per side, flanked by nine cylindrical towers. The great hall opened to the south through three tall pointed-arch windows with tracery, and the south-east tower retains rib vaults springing from carved capitals. Damaged during the Great Jacquerie and in ruins by 1358, the castle was deliberately dismantled in 1431. Anne de Montmorency acquired the estate in 1564. Listed as a monument historique from the 1862 list, it lost its west gable in 1870. The ruins, privately owned, now contain flats.