A newly created change-ringing method has been named for the medieval Dublin tower in which it was first successfully rung.

On Saturday 15 August, the method being attempted in the ringing chamber of St Audoen’s Church had only a working name: “Top Secret.”

I covered two attempts on the tenor that day. Neither became the performance that would formally name the method, but I had the pleasure of ringing during its earliest attempts in the tower.

By the following day, the secret was out.

On Sunday 16 August 2026, members of the Irish Association successfully rang 120 changes of the method. The performance was recorded on BellBoard as naming a new method or variation: St Audoen’s Place Doubles.

The name gives the method a lasting connection with the medieval Dublin church in which it was developed and first successfully performed. Although I was not a member of Sunday’s recorded band, covering those two Saturday attempts gives me my own small connection with its beginnings.

Michael McFarland Campbell regularly rings at St Audoen’s Church. On Saturday 15 August, he covered two attempts at the then unnamed method, which was being rung under the working title “Top Secret.”

Sources

• BellBoard: 120 St Audoen’s Place Doubles, rung at St Audoen, Dublin, 16 August 2026⁠
• Author’s personal recollection of the two attempts rung on 15 August 2026.
• Photograph © Michael McFarland Campbell, 12 August 2023.