University College of North Wales (original building)

The original building for the University College of North Wales is a Grade I listed University building in the Collegiate Tudor style with Arts and Crafts influences. Designed by architect Henry Hare it was completed in 1911. The listed building record states that it is architecturally, one of the most significant public buildings of the period in Britain.^[1]

The building dominates the views of Bangor in Gwynedd, North Wales.^[2] Its highly visible location above the town meant that it became known, in Welsh as "Y Coleg ar y Bryn" (the College on the hill).^[3] The building contains the principal administrative areas of the university, in addition to the library, and the large Pritchard-Jones hall, named after Sir John Pritchard Jones.^[3]