Winchester Surprise Minor

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
34-36.14-56-36.14-34.16,16
Leadhead
m 142635
Divisions
None
Default calls
Far
Method above
Winchester Surprise Minor
Method below
Bristoll Surprise Minor
Accepted extension path
Compositions designed for this method
1
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)
♫ 31
Performances
Date Type Details
Tue 12 Feb 1980 First peal on towerbells Winchester Surprise Minor at Brockenhurst by the Winchester and Portsmouth Diocesan Guild at Brockenhurst
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