Bibliography - Basil Walter T. Handford (1901 - 1991)
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Lancing: A History of S.S. Mary and Nicholas College, Lancing, 1848 to 1930, by B. W. T. Handford, published 1933 (Basil Blackwell) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Lancing College, 1848-1948, by Basil Handford, published 1933 (31 pp., Hove: Combridges) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries

Most Sussex people know the cluster of collegiate buildings on the Downs over the Adur - curiously similar in site to Arundel Castle in the next gap - and some know also something of the highly original and prescient genius, Woodard, who inserted Lancing and her group of sister-schools (Hurstpierpoint and Ardingly among them), and with them a fertile idea, into the educational vacuum of the mid-nineteenth century. But probably many fewer know just what was the situation which inspired the curate of Shoreham; and as Lancing lies some way off the road, still fewer know the buildings except from a distance. But the Chapel (not the College's only grand building) lacks its full length, while its height is exaggerated by the eastward fall of the ground; it should be seen within to be appreciated.
Mr. Handford's centenary brochure, based on his larger work, Lancing, is succinct, but brings out the importance of the foundation in the social history of the country, and therefore by inference of the county. It is well and abundantly illustrated.
Review by A. E. in Sussex Notes and Queries, August 1948

Lancing College 1848-1948: 1: Foundations and Fundamentals. 2: The Story of the School. 3: The Buildings, by Basil Handford, published 1948 (Hove: Combridges) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Nathaniel Woodward, A Lecture Delivered at Hurstpierpoint College on November 15th 1974 , by Basil Handford, published 1974 accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

A School Cathedral [Lancing Chapel], by Basil Handford, published 1977 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15532]