Wragby Delight Minor

About Wragby Delight Minor - Complib

>Wragby Delight sits neatly between the standard Treble Bob methods and the simple, right place surprise methods.

Wragby Delight is “merely” St Albans Delight Minor except that when the treble is dodging in 5-6, "Kent" places are made. That’s all it is!

Wragby Delight Minor is one of a group of 5 Treble Dodging methods all having identical work below the treble.

• Norbury Treble Bob Minor (Ibid)
• Kingston Treble Bob Minor
• Willesden Delight Minor
• Wragby Delight Minor
• St Werburgh Delight Minor

As of June 2025 there were just 5 performances Wragby Delight Minor on handbells.

Method Structure.

Place Notation:
X 34 X 14 X 12 X 16 . 34X34 . 56, 16, Bob 14, Single 1456.

Grid:

Diagram: Wragby Delight Minor, plain lead, change-rows and grid.

Plain Course structure
The method is fairly static with triple dodges in 1-2 across the Half Lead. The 5th place half lead causes the pair in 3-4 to remain there and repeat the places work.

Learning Wragby Delight Minor.

The Structure

Wragby Delight Minor preserves the structure of St Albans Delight Minor the main blue line artefact then is the places work in the 5-6 section.
The places up are 3rds, 4ths, 3rds, 4ths
The places down are 4ths, 3rds, 4ths, 3rds

The Rules

Wragby Delight Minor - the rules
Ring St Albans Delight Minor unless the treble is dodging in 5-6 when double Kent places are made in 3-4.

Double Blue Lines

Wragby Delight Minor, 1-2

Diagram: Wragby Delight Minor, 1-2.

Wragby Delight Minor, 3-4

Diagram: Wragby Delight Minor, 3-4.

Wragby Delight Minor, 5-6

Diagram: Wragby Delight Minor, 5-6.

Artefacts

The Blue Line features worth noting are the triple dodges front and back, and the places in 3-4.

Place Notation and Grid

The grid is a better memory aid than the Place Notation, however, Wragby Delight Minor is a good choice of method to practice Place Notation. It combines the places of Oxford Treble Bob with Kent Treble Bob.

Pictels

This is a straightforward structure, there is no compelling reason to chop it up into picture elements.

Goals and learning approach

What you are trying to achieve needs to drive your approach.

Ringing by structure

If you are ringing Wragby to gain the skill of associating method structure with the work of the treble (valid goal), DO NOT learn the lines, learn the structure, ring, make mistakes and learn from them. Track-the Treble skills, Place Notation skills, coursing order skills can all be developed in this manner

Performance Level

If you are wishing to achieve 720s, Quarters, or peals:
start with the structural ringing as above, add in the bits that are natural to you.
Study the lines.
Practice a lot.
Achieve some performances .

Method Mastery Level

It is unusual for a band to wish to achieve mastery in a method like Wragby.

Ringing Wragby Delight.

Track the treble

Awareness of the position of the treble is a key skill for most bellringing methods, and a signiificant help in ringing Wragby Delight Minor. Some hints and tips for developing the skill are given in the techniques section.

However, it is NOT suggested that ringers attempt to ring Wragby Delight Minor simply by the rules to gain "track the treble" skills. There are better methods in which to develop that skill.

Positional Awareness

The structure, which separates bells between 3-4 and 5-6 above the treble, and between 1-2 and 3-4 below the treble, is significantly helpful in developing the awareness of place inside the change rows. This is a helpful method.

Place Notation Elements

The method only contains 5 elements (X, 12, 16, 34, 34X34, 56), all of which will already have been rung.

Place Bells, Pivot Leads, and Staging posts

For 3-4 pair, the pivot point is when they make places together in 3-4 under the treble. For 5-6 pair, the pivot point is when the pair triple dodges together in 1-2.

164523 LE 16: College Bob; Burton T.B.; Norfolk S.

1-2:1-2, 1-5, 1-4, 1-3, 1-6, 1-2
3-4:3-4, 6-3, 2-6, 5-2, 4-5, 3-4
5-6:6-5, 2-4, 5-3, 4-6, 3-2, 6-5 :

Awareness of other bells

Because of the fairly static nature of the method, there is time to think, whilst ringing across the half lead, where other working bells will be at the following lead end.

Coursing Order in Wragby Delight Minor

Natural Coursing order is well preserved both above and below the treble

Ringing the Method

The great benefit of ringing Wragby Delight is that enables practice at many of techniques which are used in the simple Surprise methods.

Touches.

Touches of Sandal TB will work for Wragby Delight.