Caversham Court was a mansion on the N bank of the Thames in Caversham, a suburb of Reading, and is now a public park running down from the site of the house to the river. The retaining wall of the E-W terrace walk of Caversham Court include a pair of gate piers flanking a flight of steps leading down towards the river, and into these piers are set a pair of 12thc. head corbels similar to those from Reading Abbey and assumed to come from that house.

The house was built on the site of a small monastic cell of Notley Abbey, which was given the church of St Peter, Caversham, with its rectory and lands by Walter Giffard, 2nd Earl of Buckingham. At the Dissolution the rectory passed to Christ Church College, Oxford, and a Tudor mansion was built. The grounds were laid out by Thomas Loveday between 1660 and 1681, and in the 1840s, Pugin rebuilt it and its garden walls. The house, known as the Striped House, on account of its timber framing, was demolished in 1933, but parts of it are poreserved in Reading Museum.

These corbels were first brought to the author's attention by Prof. Eric Fernie around 2001. While Caversham Court is included in Pevsner (1966) and the updated edition of 2010, the Romanesque corbels are not noted, although they are described in the List Description of 1978. The assumption that the corbels came from Reading Abbey is difficult to sustain as no corbels have been found on the abbey site, and others assumed to be from the abbey, in the church yard folly at St Laurence, Reading and in the museum (stone 1992.52) are all badly worn.