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Le château en bref
The Tour à Diable of Orchies is a corner tower of the town's defensive walls, guarding the western end of the town. Orchies was burnt in 1414, so the walls that incorporate it were presumably rebuilt in the fifteenth century, with alterations in the sixteenth. The tower appears on a plan of 1545 and is described as a powder magazine on a plan of 1796. When the town voted to demolish its fortifications in 1826, the tower was spared. It served as a prison, as attested by a wicket door and numerous inscriptions dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Severely damaged during the First World War, it was rebuilt; its present roof dates from the 1920s. It stands in a private garden and is not open to visitors.