St Saviour's Church, Splott St Saviour's Church, Splott St Saviour's Church is a Church in Wales church in Splott, Cardiff, South Wales. In the late 19th Century, a large number of churches were built in Cardiff as the city expanded, and what had been villages were absorbed into the growing city. Splott, then called East Moors or Old Moors, had several new churches built. A school chapel, dedicated to St Columba had been founded in 1877. St Saviour's was established as a tin tabernacle in 1884. Both of these buildings were replaced with the present church in 1888. Its appearance was modelled on St
Fairwater, Double Bay in Australia in the last quarter of the nineteenth century - John Horbury Hunt (1838-1904). Hunt was a Canadian born architect who arrived in Sydney in 1863. Closely affiliated with the Bishop of Armidale and Grafton, and the White family of pastoralists, Hunt's work is particularly evident in New England and the Hunter Valley. The Josephs resided at the house, which was called "Fairwater" from , for the period 1883 and 1887. During 1888 to 1889 the property was leased to Thomas Forster Knox (1849-1919), son of Sir Edward Knox, the founder of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., and later