Image: HeraldicEastWindow StLawrence'sChurch Mereworth Kent

Description: Heraldic East Window, St Lawrence's Church, Mereworth, Kent. 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. (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[1]) Row 1 (top), l to r: Sackville arms Cary (Argent, on a bend sable 3 roses argent) quartering Spencer of Ashbury, Devon (Sable, 2 bars nebuly ermine) impaling: quarterly of 4 .... (Spencer of Ashbury, Devon, NOT of Spencercombe); 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. Impaling impaling quarterly, i and iv, Gules crusilly or, a saltire argent (DENNY); ii: Or, a daunce gules in chief 3 martlets sable, MORE; iii: Azure, 3 trouts fretted in triangle and in chief a molet argent (TROUTBECK). Joyce Denny, daughter of Sir Edmund Denny by his second wife Mary Troutbeck, daughter and co-heires of Robert Troutbeck, married (1) William Walsingham, father of Sir Francis Walsingham, and (2) Sir John Cary (d.1669) Waldegrave Mildmay of Essex[2](Per fesse nebuly argent and sable, 3 greyhound's heads couped counterchanged, collared gules) impaling Gonston Mildmay impaling Walsingham (Gules bezanty, a cross couped chequy argent and azure), for marriage of Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to Mary Walsingham, a sister of Francis Walsingham, spymaster to Queen Elizabeth I; Row 2, l to r: Paulet, Powlet,Poulett (Marquis of Winchester); Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; Royal arms of Tudor monarchs (Queen Elizabeth I); Clinton quartering De Saye Quarterly of 4: 1:Arundel; 2:Barry of eight or and gules (FitzAlan ancient) (Willement, Thomas, An Account of the Restorations of the Collegiate Chapel of St. George, Appendix, pp.40-1, re Garter Stall Plate of "Sir William FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel"[3]); FitzAlan (of Bedale Castle, Yorkshire) arms; 3:Woodville: Argent, a fesse and a canton conjoined gules; 4:Maltravers quartering Argent, a chief azure (Clun/FitzAlan of Clun Castle, Shropshire) (Willement, Thomas, An Account of the Restorations of the Collegiate Chapel of St. George, Appendix, pp.40-1, re Garter Stall Plate of "Sir William FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel"[4]) . Row 3: "1562" at bottom of each shield FitzWilliam quarterly of 10; Quarterly of 4: 1:Wentworth; 2:Despencer; 3:Tiptoft; 4:Gowsell - all impaling Walsingham quarterly of 4. Tamworth impaling Walsingham; Walsingham impaling Denny; Gates impaling Walsingham. Row 4 (bottom) l to r: Villiers quarterly of 6; Royal arms of Stuart monarchs, with label of eldest son Royal arms of Stuart monarchs (King James I) Howard, Duke of Norfolk (?), quarterly of 8 Manners, Earl of Rutland, quartering Roos.
Title: HeraldicEastWindow StLawrence'sChurch Mereworth Kent
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