Film at St Mary's: hire the campus as a filming location

Looking for the perfect film location hire? St Mary’s University offers a stunning and versatile filming location in the leafy, picturesque, west of London.

With a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces, including historic buildings, modern facilities, and expansive sports grounds, our site is ideal for productions of all sizes. Whether you’re searching for location hire for filming dramatic scenes, action-packed sports sequences, or scenic backdrops, St Mary’s University provides everything you need for a seamless shoot.

Waldegrave suite

The Grade 1 listed Waldegrave Suite at St Mary’s University offers an opulent setting for filming and photography, with its ornate high ceilings and chandeliers.

The wood-panelled Senior Common Room has doubled as the House of Commons for BBC drama Appletree Yard, and other previous filming projects include Silent Witness, Lewis, ITV’s Endeavour, The Martin Lewis Money Show and BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award.

Katherine Jenkins interviews Prof Peter Tyler in the Waldegrave Drawing Room during the filming of Songs of Praise

Songs of Praise (BBC)

Still from a scene of BBC's Appletree Yard filmed in the Senior Common Room

Appletree Yard (BBC)

Sir Mo Farah accepting his BBC Sports Personality of the Year award from the Waldegrave Drawing Room

Sports Personality of the Year (BBC)

Sport facilities

St Mary’s University campus benefits from a wide range of world-class sporting facilities that are available for hire for filming and photo shoots, including grass and artificial rugby and football pitches, three indoor tennis courts and a large multi-use Performance Hall.

Two state of the art gyms and the Sir Mo Farah Athletics Track, alongside High-Performance Laboratories are also available to hire.

Previous productions shot at Sport St Mary’s include TV adverts for Nike, Adidas and BUPA, Idents for Sky Sports and a full episode of BBC comedy ‘Josh’. The documentary ‘Mind Over Marathon’ featuring high profile guests TRH Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was also shot on campus.