En un regard
Le château en bref
Mellet Keep, in the village of Mellet (part of the municipality of Les Bons Villers, Hainaut), is a seigneurial tower of the late thirteenth century, remarkably well preserved. A municipal document notes walls about 1.80 m thick at the base. A first mention of a keep at Mellet dates from 1350. In the sixteenth century, the tower was probably incorporated into a larger and more comfortable château, whose present outbuildings are thought to be remnants of it. The families of Glymes, de Witthem, de Croÿ and then Spanghen succeeded one another as lords; the tower was sold in 1791 to the Clauwez-Briant family, then acquired by the village community in 1862. The attached buildings now house a communal school. The keep has been listed as a monument historique since 1996.