We had been tipped off that Bangor University has a botanical garden so went to enquire at the main university building.   I had never actually been up the road which leads to Henry Hare’s grand set piece of monastic monumentalism which overlooks the city.   In my five minute, self guided tour, all I was able to appreciate was the grandiosity of the detailing:-

On the road opposite, there are also fine arts-and-crafts buildings of a Voysey-ish character:-