Glastonbury Delight Minor

About Glastonbury Delight Minor - Complib

Carlisle Surprise above the treble is accompanied by an asymmetrical 5-6 section which creates some fluid backward hunting across the Half Lead..

"Pointiness" is created by switching between forward work and backward work, and Glastonbury Delight exhibits this as the Treble starts and finishes work in 5-6.

In June 2025 there were just 3 performances of Glastonbury Delight Minor on Bellboard..

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

• Berwyn Treble Bob
• Waterford Treble Bob
• Burslem Delight
• Waltham Delight
• Glastonbury Delight (Ibid)

Method Structure.

Place Notation:
34X36.14 X 12 X 16 .34X14. 56, 12, Bob 14, Single 1234.

Grid:

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

Goals and learning approach

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

Ringing by structure

If you are ringing Glastonbury Delight Minor 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. However, the skills would be more easily gained by ringing Kent TB Minor than Glastonbury.

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 Glastonbury Delight Minor.

Learning Glastonbury Delight Minor.

The Structure

Learning Glastonbury Delight Minor is a double challenge, the work both above and below the treble is challenging. Attention to detail, and thoroughness are necessary. If this is your first "pointy work", then learn the spacings so that you can make it all fit together.

The Rules

Glastonbury Delight Minor - the rules
Ring Carlisle Surprise Minor over Berwyn Treble Bob Minor

Double Blue Lines

Glastonbury Delight Minor, 1-2

Diagram: Glastonbury Delight Minor, 1-2.

Glastonbury Delight Minor, 3-4

Diagram:Glastonbury Delight Minor, 3-4.

Glastonbury Delight Minor, 5-6

Diagram: Glastonbury Delight Minor, 5-6.

Artefacts

Place Notation and Grid

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

Pictels

Splitting the method into individual elements is of no value.

Ringing Glastonbury Delight Minor.

Track the treble

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

The pointy work is (helfully) in 1-2 but the related messed about Kent places just need to be memorised in detail.

Positional Awareness

Achieve accurate placement of the bells during the 5-6 section by memorising the spacings.
Note the way that the points in 1-2 occur when treble makes first and last blows in 6ths for the lead.

Place Notation Elements

The method contains 6 elements (34x36 X, 12, 14, 16 56, 34x14, 56).

Place Bells, Pivot Leads, and Staging posts

135264 LE 12: Plain Bob; Morning Star T.B.; Westminster S.

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

For 3-4 pair, the pivot point is when they cross over in 1-2 at the Half Lead.
For 5-6 pair, the pivot point is when they cross over in 3-4 at the Half Lead.

Awareness of other bells

Glastonbury Delight is rich in interest in the way the bells work together both in the 1-2 section and in the 5-6 section, and in the transitions into and out of backward hunting. Study the structure, memorise the spacings.

Coursing Order in Glastonbury Delight.

Natural coursing order applies at the half lead and at the Lead End.
Check out the order for 4ths place bell after the dodge 3-4 up with treble, and until the 3-4 down with the treble.

Ringing the Method

Glastonbury demands an investment in learning before picking up the bells.

Bobs and Singles.

Bobs The plain lead end is 12 and the bob as a 14 feels like, and is identical in structure to a bob in Carlisle Surprise.

Singles Singles are rarely used in Treble Dodging Minor.

Touches of Glastonbury Delight Minor.

With Plain Bob Lead End order, bobs only touches of Plain Bob work fine.