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The old buildings of the Grange with tithes of Ully-Saint-Georges date from the 15th century and are located to the north of the church Saint-Georges. This monument, inscribed in the Historical Monuments since June 6, 1933, once belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Denis. Its architecture is distinguished by a round tower of three floors, probably used as a guard post, as well as by massive buttresses distributed irregularly. Originally, the barn could have included a central and collateral vessel, as suggested by the dissymmetry of the gable walls.

The main gate, surmounted by a statue of Saint Denis cephalophore, overlooks a farm yard. The interior, now without a ceiling, reveals an apparent structure, although there is no indication that the building has ever been vaulted. This building illustrates the economic and agricultural role of tidal barns in the Middle Ages, used to collect royalties in kind due to the abbey or the local lord.

Ully-Saint-Georges, a peri-urban village in the Pays de Thelle en Picardie, was a strategic location of the bailiff of Senlis. In the 16th century, the seigneury was divided between the house of Vandeuil and the nuns of Saint-Cyr. The presence of this tidal barn reflects the importance of religious and seigneurial structures in the territorial and economic organization of the region, particularly for the management of land and agricultural resources.

The village, mentioned from the 12th century under the name of Ulliacum, had a turbulent history, marked by the destruction of a castle in 1591 after its surrender to Henry IV. La Grange aux times, as a building linked to the collection of taxes in kind, also recalls feudal and ecclesiastical systems that structured rural life before the French Revolution.

Today, this monument, though transformed, remains an architectural and historical testimony of medieval agricultural and seigneurial practices. Its inscription in the Monuments Historiques underscores its heritage value, while providing an insight into the rural and religious past of Ully-Saint-Georges and the Hauts-de-France region.

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