Hector Lebailly de Tilleghem

Baron

Hector Lebailly de Tilleghem, baron, is known as the commissioner of the present-day château of Ten Torre, south of Beernem in West Flanders. According to the Flemish heritage inventory, which draws on the cadastre, the building was erected in 1854 on the foundations of a former hunting lodge, a brickworks being established for the occasion along the Bergstraat; the website castles.nl, for its part, gives the date as 1845. The square moated castle, with four hexagonal corner towers, that he had built replaces the earlier castle attested since 1353. The estate then passed to the de Meester de Ravenstein family, for whom the provincial architect Stefaan Mortier restored it around 1895. The sources consulted provide no other reliable biographical information about his life.