National 12-bell Striking Contest

2024 Contest

Chief Judge: Thomas W Griffiths

assisted by Julia R Cater and Andrew B Mills

Test piece: First six leads of Cambridge Surprise Maximus

Congratulations to the Society of Royal Cumberland Youths who have won this year’s contest. The results are:

Pos	Team	Peal speed	Score
1st	Society of Royal Cumberland Youths	3h 23	90%
2nd	Birmingham	3h 13	88%
3rd	Bristol	3h 16	87%
4th	St Paul’s Cathedral	3h 30	80%
5th	Melbourne	3h 11	78%
6th	Ancient Society of College Youths	3h 18	77%
7th	Cambridge	3h 17	76%
8th	Guildford	3h 23	65%
9th	Portsmouth	3h 27	62%
10th	Chilcompton	3h 24	60%

The qualifying contests took place on Saturday 23rd March in Bristol, Portsmouth and Reading. The draw for the order of ringing was:

Time	Bristol St Stephen	Portsmouth	Reading
	Results	Results	Results
1130 1200 1230 1300 1330 1400 1430 1500 1530	Bristol St Paul’s Stockton Exeter Leeds Southwark Cambridge Worcester	Ipswich Oxford York Hursley SRCY Cheltenham Melbourne Wimborne M Portsmouth	Sheffield Guildford ASCY Reading Towcester Norwich Birmingham Chester
	Judges
	Julia R Cater Alan G Reading	Andrew B Mills John R Fisher	Thomas W Griffiths John N Hughes-D’Aeth