Bumped by this Musée by mistake and i was glad i did.
Located in a 16th-century church, Le Secq des Tournelles is a museum dedicated to learning about wrought iron, as it houses the largest collection of wrought iron items, including locks, knives, candlesticks, intricate keys, pots, and other pieces, numbering 8,000. ; Do not hesitate to visit it and learn about the skills of the iron industry and how its use has developed.
The parish of Saint-Laurent was abolished in 1791 in favor of the neighboring parish of Saint-Godard. The disused Saint-Laurent church was then used by the Jacobins club.
Sold as national property on January 4, 1803 to an individual, it became a shed and stable and remained in private hands until the end of the 19th century.
In 1891, the owner of the building, the notary Paul Courcelle, wanted to destroy it to build a residential building, but the city hesitated to give its consent. The patron François Depeaux proposes to buy the church, on the condition of having the enjoyment of it for 99 years, probably to install a museum of the Impressionists there. But the Commission of Historic Monuments is opposed to it, undertakes the classification of the old church (1914) and expropriates the owner[6]. In April 1892, Jean-Eugène Durand captured the state of the building on film.
In 1893, it was bought by the city of Rouen. The Rouen architect Lucien Lefort then intervened to carry out major repairs (underpinnings, windows, doors, balustrades) so that the museum, on the occasion of the Normandy millennium celebrations in 1911, hosted an exhibition there. Norman art and archaeology.
The old church of Saint-Laurent has been classified as a historical monument since 1914.