Pevensey Delight Minor

About Pevensey Delight Minor

Pevensey Delight Minor has the fluid hunting work above the treble of the NELSON Treble Bob Minor Group.
Below the treble the London Surprise Minor Group backward hunting is supported by a 5ths place Half Lead to make 8 blows of backward hunting in 1-2-3-4.

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 / Sandal Treble Bob Minor.

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

• Dunedin Delight Minor
• Pevensey Delight Minor (Ibid)
• Chelsea Delight Minor

In September 2025 Bellboard had just 2 handbell performances that included Pevensey Delight Minor.

Method Structure.

Place Notation:
X 36 X 16 X 12 X 36 .14X14. 56, 16, Bob 14, Single 1456.

Grid:

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

Plain Course structure
This is a fluid method both above and below the treble. The lead structure is as per Sandal T.B.

Goals and learning approach

What you already know and what you are trying to achieve needs to drive your approach.
Skipton 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 Pevensey Delight is perfectly feasible.

Learning Pevensey Delight Minor.

The Structure

The course structure is as per Sandal Treble Bob minor.

The Rules

Pevensey Delight Minor - the rules
Ring Dunedin Delight Minor but with 6ths place Lead Ends.

Double Blue Lines

Pevensey Delight Minor, 1-2

Diagram: Pevensey Delight Minor, 1-2.

Pevensey Delight Minor, 3-4

Diagram: Pevensey Delight Minor, 3-4.

Pevensey Delight Minor, 5-6

Diagram: Pevensey Delight Minor, 5-6.

Artefacts

Apart from the leading back and hand inthe 5-6 sections, Pevensey is well behaved.

Place Notation and Grid

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

Ringing Pevensey 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 Pevensey Delight Minor. Some hints and tips for developing the skill are given in the techniques section.

Positional Awareness

Pevensey Delight Minor is highly fluid above the treble. The transitions between forward work and backward hunting need careful attention.

Place Notation Elements

The method only contains 7 elements (X, 12, 34, 36, 16, 14X14, 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 (4ths pb) makes 5ths at the half lead.
For 3-4 pair, the pivot point is when they cross over in 3-4 at the Half Lead.
For 5-6 pair, the pivot point is when they cross over in 1-2 at the Half Lead.

Handrails

The pivot lead keeps the pairs coursing, including the backward work; once mastered this is a handrail.

Awareness of other bells

2nds place bell and 6ths place bell work together in 1-2, it's important to get good crisp leads at the change over into and out of backward. Associating the start and finish of backward places with treble in 5ths is valuable.

Coursing Order in Pevensey Delight Minor

Pevensey Delight Minor exhibits some natural coursing order.

• The lead ends exhibit Natural Coursing Order.
  
• The bells leading during the 5-6 sections do so in natural coursing order.
  
• The 4 bells makinbg 4ths during the 5-6 sections do so in natural coursing order if you jump over the pivot bell.
  
• The three bells in the coursing order starting with 2nds place bell are important; if the coursing order is abcde, a is 2nds place bell, b is the pivot bell and makes 5ths at the half lead, c works with 2nds place bell, dodges 1-2 up with the treble and hands over to d to become the next 2nds place bell.
  
• The other pair, d and e are the coursing pivot pair that cross in 1-2 at the Half Lead.

Ringing the Method

Pevensey 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 Pevensey Delight Minor.

Pevensey Delight Minor has the same lead-end order as Sandal Treble Bob Minor.