Celebrity homes Jane Seymour used to own this house, where The Cure and Radiohead recorded albums St Catherine’s Court may be a Grade-I listed manor house dating from the 13th century, but its recent past is rather rock ’n’ roll. Bond Girl Jane Seymour used to own own the manor house, which is currently listed for £12.5 million with Savills .
The Live and Let Die star spent a day filming Jamaica Inn at the Elizabethan mansion the Eighties. “We had one day's filming here, and by evening [..
.] I had fallen in love with the place,” she told Architectural Digest. She bought it with her husband, David Flynn, in 1981 and renovated the 11-bedroom house and 14 acres of gardens.
When Seymour remarried film director James Keach, the couple began renting out the house as a film set and recording studio. The Cure recorded Wild Mood Swings and Bloodflowers at St Catherine’s Court in the Nineties, and Radiohead recorded most of OK Computer there. Thanks to its acoustics, the ballroom seven as the main studio with the library serving as the control room.
Plus with so many bedrooms, there was more than enough space for the bands and all their equipment. Robbie Williams also rented the house in the Noughties, and New Order recorded bits of Waiting for the Sirens’ Call at the manor house in 2005. All the celebrities and their entourages turning up in this quiet corner on the edge of the Cotswold’s eventually annoyed the neighbours.
Seymour, who only lived there for three month.
