Bristol 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
-50-14.50-50.36.14-70.58.16-16.70-16-10,10
Leadhead
g 1352749608
Divisions
None
Default calls
Near
Method above
Bristol Surprise Royal
Method below
Bristol Surprise Royal
FCH Groups
/c
Accepted extension path
EP3-1EF/1EF , EP4-2/6:4:1/6:4:1
Compositions designed for this method
1919
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)
♫ 131
Performances
Date Type Details
Sat 10 Feb 1934 First peal on towerbells 5040 Bristol Surprise Royal by the Surrey Association at St Mary, Beddington, Surrey, conducted by Charles H Kippin
Mon 15 Nov 1971 First peal on handbells 5040 Bristol Surprise Royal by the Hertford County Association at 15 Harford Drive, Watford, Hertfordshire
Sat 28 Jan 1978 LongLength on towerbells 15120 Bristol Surprise Royal by the St Martin's Guild at Holy Cross, Daventry, Northamptonshire, conducted by Roger Baldwin
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
Sun 22 Jul 1984 LongLength on handbells 10440 Bristol Surprise Royal by the Leicester Diocesan Guild at 106 Beaumont Road, Barrow-on-Soar, Leicestershire, conducted by Robert B Smith
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 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
Sat 11 Mar 2000 LongLength on towerbells 17040 Bristol Surprise Royal by the Winchester & Portsmouth Diocesan Guild at St Michael Archangel, Lyme Regis, Dorset, conducted by Roy LeMarechal
Sat 6 Mar 2004 LongLength on towerbells 20160 Bristol Surprise Royal by the Saint James' Guild at Saint Michael the Archangel, Lyme Regis, Dorset, conducted by David C Brown
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
Sun 3 Jan 2010 LongLength on towerbells 10800 Spliced Surprise Royal (30m) by the Ancient Society of College Youths at St Thomas, Oxford, Oxfordshire, conducted by Simon J L Linford
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
Sat 9 Feb 2019 LongLength on towerbells 10120 Bristol Surprise Royal by the Bristol Society at St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, Oxfordshire, conducted by Alan G Reading
Sat 21 Dec 2019 LongLength on towerbells 10040 Bristol Surprise Royal at St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, Oxfordshire, conducted by Alex S Riley
Sun 10 May 2020 First quarter peal on keyboards 1280 Bristol Surprise Royal at The Lair of the Snow Tiger, Ringing Room, conducted by Alex F Byrne
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