St Saviour's Church, Splott stained glass dates only from the 1960s). In 1985, the old church hall on the opposite side of the street was sold off. It was replaced with the present structure (as well as a new vestibule), which was opened on 15 May 1987. In 2011, the lead was stripped from the roof of the church's porch, but was abandoned nearby. 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
Splott medieval times, and a derivation of "plat", meaning a grassy area of land. The name of the original farm would seem to be Middle English "splott", from Old English (speck, blot, patch of land) and the word is to be found in other English place names in the Vale of Glamorgan, Gower, and Pembrokeshire, as well as in Somerset and Devon, in the West Country of England, from where it was presumably introduced by English settlers. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. The population of Splott in the United Kingdom Census 2001 was 12,074, in