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Easter services will go ahead at Walsall church despite fire that damaged stained glass windows

Easter services will go ahead at a Walsall church despite a fire in the grounds that badly damaged its stained glass windows, says the warden.

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Services will run as usual at St Andrews Church on Birchills Street despite the blaze that required 14 firefighters to tackle.

The fire, which is said to have 'happened accidentally', occurred at around 2.31pm on Tuesday and 'destroyed' the former vicarage in the grounds known as Avon House.

The heat from the fire is said to have 'badly damaged' some of the stained glass windows on the church, which will 'not be cheap' to repair.

Firefighters at the scene of a fire on Birchills Street, Walsall, where a wooden building caught fire behind a church