LATTON, a parish in the hundred of HARLOW,
county of ESSEX, 1 mile (W. S.W.) from Harlow, containing
378 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in
the jurisdiction of the Commissary of Essex and Herts,
concurrently with the Consistorial Court of the Bishop
of London, rated in the king's books at £7. M. Burgoyne,
Esq. was patron in 1820. The church is dedicated
to St. John the Baptist. Here was a priory of
Black canons, founded in the fourteenth century, and
dedicated to St. John the Baptist: some remains of the
conventual buildings have been converted into a barn;
they contain specimens in the decorated style.