St Catherine’s Court is a grade I listed 16th-century Somerset manor near Bath originally built as a priory grange for the monks of Bath Abbey. It takes its name from the 12th-century Church of St Catherine, which sits beside the house.
Jane Seymour with Roger Moore in the 1973 Bond film Live and Let Die
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The actress Jane Seymour (who starred as the tarot-card reading Solitaire in Live and Let Die, the 1973 James Bond film) was particularly taken by its beauty while on location for Jamaica Inn, a 1983 British television miniseries adapted from Daphne du Maurier’s 1936 novel. By the time she’d finished filming, the 13-bedroom mansion and its 14 acres were hers, for £350,000.
From 1981 Seymour and David Flynn, then her husband, carried out millions of pounds’ worth of renovations. Once the 14,477
