Cambridge Surprise Royal

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
-30-14-1250-36-1470-58-16-70-18-90,12
Leadhead
b 1573920486
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Cambridge Surprise Royal
Method below
Cambridge Surprise Royal
FCH Groups
BD/B
Accepted extension path
EP3-1AB/1DE , EP4-2/7:4:1/5:4:1
Compositions designed for this method
1471
Leads in course
9
Lead length
40
Plain course length
360
Hunt bells
1
Working bells
9
Stationary bells
0
Maximum blows in one place
2
Music score (default scheme)
♫ 77
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 26 Oct 1822 Peal on towerbells Cambridge Surprise Royal at Cathedral, Wakefield at Cathedral, Wakefield
Sat 26 Oct 1822 First peal on towerbells 5400 Cambridge Surprise Royal by the Company of All Saints Ringers, Wakefield at All Saints, Wakefield, Yorkshire, conducted by William Woodhead
Wed 26 Dec 1923 LongLength on towerbells 10440 Cambridge Surprise Royal by the Middlesex County Association & London Diocesan Guild at St Mary, Walthamstow, Essex, conducted by William Pye
Sun 30 Mar 1947 First peal on handbells 5040 Cambridge Surprise Royal by the Leicester Diocesan Guild at The Wayside, 150 Narborough Road South, Leicester, Leicestershire
Sat 15 Dec 1951 LongLength on towerbells 15480 Cambridge Surprise Royal by the Lancashire Association at St Mark, Worsley, Lancashire, conducted by John Worth
Sat 20 Apr 1968 LongLength on towerbells 18000 Cambridge Surprise Royal by the Chester Diocesan Guild at Bell Foundry Tower, Loughborough, Leicestershire, conducted by Robert B Smith
Sat 31 Mar 1984 LongLength on towerbells 10560 Spliced Surprise Royal (4m) by the Bedfordshire Association at All Saints, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, conducted by David C Brown
Sat 24 Nov 1984 LongLength on towerbells 10080 Spliced Surprise Royal (28m) by the London County Association at All Saints, Isleworth, Greater London, conducted by David C Brown
Thu 20 Nov 1986 LongLength on handbells 12120 Spliced Surprise Royal (4m) by the Leicester Diocesan Guild at 106 Beaumont Road, Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, conducted by John M Jelley
Sat 19 May 1990 LongLength on towerbells 10800 Cambridge Surprise Royal by the Winchester & Portsmouth Diocesan Guild at Minster Church of St Thomas of Canterbury and St Thomas the Apostle, Newport, Isle of Wight, conducted by Roy LeMarechal
Sat 30 Sept 1995 LongLength on towerbells 20000 Spliced Surprise Royal (7m) by the Saint James' Guild at St Michael Archangel, Lyme Regis, Dorset, conducted by Ian Roulstone
Wed 26 Aug 1998 LongLength on handbells 14040 Cambridge Surprise Royal by the Leicester Diocesan Guild at 106 Beaumont Road, Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, conducted by Robert B Smith
Sat 7 Oct 2006 LongLength on towerbells 10101 Spliced Caters and Royal by the Ancient Society of College Youths at S. Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire, conducted by David C Brown
Thu 18 Mar 2010 LongLength on towerbells 20160 Spliced Surprise Royal (56m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Thomas, Oxford, Oxfordshire, conducted by Simon J L Linford
Fri 15 Jun 2012 LongLength on handbells 10080 Cambridge Surprise Royal by the Society of Cambridge Youths at 16 Godesdone Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, conducted by David J Pipe
Wed 20 May 2020 First quarter peal on keyboards 1282 Cambridge Surprise Royal at Norwich,Great Hockham, Reach & Godmanchester, Ringing Room, conducted by David C Brown
Mon 25 Aug 2025 LongLength on towerbells 10000 Spliced Surprise Royal (8m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire, conducted by Henry J W Pipe