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Topographical Dictionary of England, Lewis, 1831

Caversham, Oxfordshire

CAVERSHAM, a parish in the hundred of BINFIELD, county of OXFORD, 1 mile (N.) from Reading, containing 1317 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Oxford, endowed with £400 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £500 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, was part of the first endowment of Nutley abbey, in Buckinghamshire, the society of which here founded a cell to that monastery, in which was a chapel, where, at the time of the dissolution, was superstitiously exhibited the angel with on wing, who was stated to have brought to Caversham the spear-head by which our Saviour was pierced on the cross. The village is pleasantly situated on the banks of the Thames. Charles I. was for a short time kept a prisoner here. Caversham gives the inferior title of viscount to Earl Cadogan.