Superlative Surprise Minor

also known as England’s Delight pre 20C
Blue Line
Properties
Changes
  • Adjacent
  • Identity
  • Jump
  • Static
  • Dynamic
  • Cross
  • Pure
  • Penultimate
  • Touching Places
Hunt bells
  • Principle
  • Hunter
    • One
    • Multiple
    • All
Working bell cycles
  • Monocyclic
  • Isocyclic
  • Differential
Hunter classes
  • Plain
    • Place
    • Bob
    • Single
  • Alliance
  • Treble Place
  • Treble Dodging
    • Treble Bob
    • Delight
    • Surprise
  • Hybrid
  • Little
Symmetry
  • Asymmetric
  • Palindromic
  • Double
  • Rotational
  • Offset
Leadheads
  • Plain Bob
  • Grandsire
  • Original
  • Cyclic
  • Rounds
Course properties
  • True plain course
  • True leads
  • Right place
  • Uneven parity
  • Layered
Place notation
-36-14-56-36-14-56,12
Leadhead
f 142635
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Superlative Surprise Minor
Method below
Superlative Surprise Minor
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
4
Leads in course
5
Lead length
24
Plain course length
120
Hunt bells
1
Working bells
5
Stationary bells
0
Maximum blows in one place
2
Music score (default scheme)
♫ 32
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 10 Apr 1875 First extent on towerbells 720 Superlative Surprise Minor at Glemsford
Sat 7 Jul 1888 LongLength on towerbells 10080 Treble Dodging Minor (14m) by the Winchester Diocesan Guild and Sussex County Association at St John the Baptist, Capel, Surrey, conducted by David Jordan
Thu 10 Mar 1892 First inclusion in a peal on towerbells 5040 Minor (7m) by the The Essex Association (The Stansted Branch) at St Mary the Virgin, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, conducted by Isaac Cavill
Sun 17 May 1908 LongLength on towerbells 10080 Surprise Minor (14m) by the Lancashire Association at Immanuel, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, conducted by C Sharples
Sat 5 Aug 1961 First peal on towerbells Superlative Surprise Minor at Addington, Surrey by the Surrey Association at Addington, Surrey
Sat 2 Jul 1988 LongLength on towerbells 10080 Treble Dodging Minor (14m) by the Guildford Diocesan Guild at St John the Baptist, Capel, Surrey, conducted by Toby Arkless
Fri 12 Dec 2003 First quarter peal on handbells 1272 Superlative Surprise Minor at 23 Albany Road, St Leonards on Sea, Sussex, conducted by Alan D Pink
Sun 15 Feb 2004 First inclusion in a peal on handbells 5040 Surprise Minor (7m) by the Iceni Society at 2 Pretyman Avenue, Bacton, Suffolk, conducted by Andrew J W Tibbetts
Wed 12 Jan 2005 LongLength on handbells 19440 Spliced Treble Dodging Minor (729m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at 12 Victoria Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, conducted by Andrew J W Tibbetts
Wed 1 Jun 2005 LongLength on handbells 20880 Spliced Treble Dodging Minor (1053m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at 12 Victoria Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, conducted by Andrew J W Tibbetts
Sat 30 Jan 2010 LongLength on handbells 10080 Spliced Treble Dodging Minor (676m) by the Iceni Society at 2 Pretyman Avenue, Bacton, Suffolk, conducted by Andrew J W Tibbetts
Sat 8 Nov 2025 LongLength on handbells 25200 Spliced Treble Dodging Minor (210m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at 53 Covent Garden, Willingham, Cambridgeshire, conducted by Henry J W Pipe