FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor

About FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor

FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor has the fluid hunting work above the treble of the Chadkirk Group. Below the treble the work has moved away from Kent and Oxford but with 3rds place at the 4-5 cross-sections, Oxford places in the 5-6 section and 5ths place at the Half Lead. Thus we have long dodging in 1-2 separated from the places and dodging work in 3-4. The mixture of fluid work above the treble with static work below makes this an excellent method for practicing structured counting.

4ths place bell is the pivot bell and with the 6ths place lead end, the calling sequence for 6ths observation is as per Double Court Bob Minor.

FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor is one of a group of 3 Treble Dodging 3rds Place Delight methods all having identical work below the treble.

• BOGEDONE Delight Minor
• FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor (Ibid)
• Leasowe Delight Minor

In July 2025 Bellboard had just 4 handbell performances that included FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor and including 1 peal.

Method Structure.

Place Notation:
X 36 X 16 X 12 X 36 X 34 X 56, 16, Bob 14, Single 1456.

Grid:

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

Plain Course structure
This is a highly fluid method above the treble with the awkwardness of Norwich Surprise below. With 4ths Place Bell as the pivot bell, and 6ths place Lead End, the leads are presented in Sandal Treble Bob sequence.

Goals and learning approach

What you are trying to achieve needs to drive your approach.
FOTHERINGAY Delight is a Lead End variation on BOGEDONE Delight. The method is perfectly suited as an exercise in Treble guided structural ringing.

Ringing by structure

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

Mastery of FOTHERINGAY Delight is perfectly feasible, if unusual.

Learning FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor.

The Structure

The course structure is as per Oxford Treble Bob minor.

The Rules

FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor - the rules
Ring BOGEDONE Delight Minor with 6ths place at the Lead End

FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor - alternative rules
Ring 6ths place CHADKIRK Treble Bob Minor above the Treble, and
NORWICH Surprise Minor below and with 5ths place at the Half Lead.

Double Blue Lines

FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor, 1-2

Diagram: FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor, 1-2.

FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor, 3-4

Diagram: FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor, 3-4.

FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor, 5-6

Diagram: FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor, 5-6.

Artefacts

5-pull dodging in 1-2.

Place Notation and Grid

The pictorial grid emphasises the structure of the method better than the Place Notation.

Ringing FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor.

Track the treble

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

Positional Awareness

FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor is highly fluid above the treble, less so below the treble.

Place Notation Elements

The method only contains 6 elements (X, 12, 34, 16, 36, 56).

Place Bells, Pivot Leads, and Handrails

156342 LE 16: Double Court Bob; Sandal Treble Bob, Hull Surprise

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

The pivot bell (2nds pb) leads at the half lead. For 3-4 pair, the pivot point is when they dodge together in 1-2 at the Half Lead. For 5-6 pair, the pivot point is when they dodge together in 3-4 at the Half Lead.

Handrails

The long dodging in 1-2 is an obvious handrail.
NB. The places in 1-2 for the 3-4 section cause 2nds place bell to dodge DOWN in the 5-pull.

Awareness of other bells

The method is static below the treble with only the bells that pass the treble in the 2-3 Cross-section joining or leaving 1-2.
The Oxford Places in the 5-6 section are made by a coursing pair.

Coursing Order in FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor

FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor exhibits much natural coursing order, especially in 3-4 under the treble. If the coursing order is abcde, and a is 2nds Place Bell, b is the pivot bell, c is 6ths Place Bell and dodges with a in 1-2, and d becomes the next 2nds place bell.

Ringing the Method

FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor gives good practice at associating a piece of structure with a piece of Treble work..

Bobs and Singles.

Bobs replace the 6ths place at the Lead End with 4ths. This causes the bell that has just made 3rds to make the bob, make thirds once more.

Singles Singles are rarely used in Treble Dodging Minor.

Touches of FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor.

FOTHERINGAY Delight Minor has the same lead-end order as SANDAL Treble Bob.