File:CaryImpalingDenny ArmsOf SirJohnCary Died1669 OfPleshyEssex MereworthChurch Kent.png

English: Heraldic East Window, St Lawrence's Church, Mereworth, Kent. Arms of Sir John Cary (d.1669) of Pleshy in Essex, who married Joyce Denny, a daughter of Sir Edmund Denny by his second wife Mary Troutbeck, daughter and co-heires of Robert Troutbeck and widow of William Walsingham, father of Sir Francis Walsingham. The Walsingham family were associated with the manor of Mereworth, and their arms are shown in several of the shields in this window.

Arms: Cary (Argent, on a bend sable three roses argent) quartering Spencer of Ashbury, Devon (NOT Spencer of Spencercombe) (Sable, two bars nebuly ermine) impaling: quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Gules crusilly or, a saltire argent (Denny);
• 2: Or, a fess dancettée gules in chief three martlets sable (as borne by More of Leicestershire (Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.703 - to which family the Denny family had no known connection). The family to which these arms relate is unknown, see Denny, Rev. H.L.L., Some Pedigrees of Denny, Le Denneys, etc, p.320[1]);
• 3: Azure, three trouts fretted in triangle and in chief a mullet argent (the mullet possibly a cadet mark, not mentioned in Burke, 1884) (Troutbeck, aliter Troutback, Trowtback, Trowtbeck (Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.1033). Borne by Troutbeck of Dunham, County Chester. Sir w:Edmund Denny (d. 22 December 1520), a Baron of the Exchequer, married secondly (c.1488) Mary Troutbeck, a daughter and co-heiress of Robert Troutbeck of w:Bridge Trafford, County Chester.

(Source: C. R. Councer, Heraldic Painted Glass in the Church of St. Lawrence, Mereworth, Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol.77, 1962, pp.48-62, esp. p.50 et seq[2])

The Denny quarterings with More and Troutbeck are also visible on the monument in Waltham Abbey, Essex, of Sir Edward Denny (1547-1600) of Bishop's Stortford, a soldier, privateer and adventurer in the reign of Elizabeth I. See image

Thomas Cary of Chilton Foliot in Wiltshire (2nd son of Sir William Cary (1437-1471) of Cockington in Devon, by his second wife Alice (or Anna) Fulford) married Eleanor Spencer, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Spencer of of Ashbury, Devon, by his wife Lady Eleanor Beaufort, 2nd daughter and co-heiress of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, the third surviving son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, the eldest of the four legitimised children of John of Gaunt (1340-1399) (third surviving son of King Edward III) by his mistress Katherine Swynford.

The church was built 1744 to 1746 by John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland, builder of the Palladian Mereworth Castle. It replaced the mediaeval church next to the castle when the castle was enlarged. The 2nd and 4th rows show arms of Knights of the Garter.