A MAN is recovering in ­hospital after falling out of a tree and breaking his leg at a church graveyard in Sydney’s inner suburbs.

The 25-year-old man fell 5m out of a tree in a Newtown graveyard about 3am today, according to witnesses, snapping branches as he plummeted to the ground.

It is understood the man broke his thigh bone, the largest and hardest bone in the human body, as a ­result of the fall.

media_camera Emergency workers bring the injured man out of Newtown Baptist Church grounds. Picture: Gordon McComiskie

Paramedics worked in the dark with head torches to treat the man at the scene before escorting him to Royal Prince Alfred hospital, where he remains in a stable condition.

The ambulance was called by the man’s friends, who were believed to be at a house together before heading to the graveyard.

“He was quite high up,” a witness said.

“Really high up. There were branches underneath him, so he may have hit some on the way down.”

media_camera Paramedics treat the injured man among grave stones. Picture: Gordon McComiskie

media_camera Three ambulance crews worked on the man for about 40 minutes. Picture: Gordon McComiskie

The local church graveyard adjoins Camperdown Memorial Rest Park, which is a common drinking haunt for late-night revellers.

Police regularly disperse groups of drinkers in the park after dark, according to Newtown Local Area Command Inspector Brett Smith.

media_camera Paramedics carry the man from the cemetery grounds. Picture: Gordon McComiskie

“It’s not uncommon to have groups of people in the early evening having a few drinks (there),” Inspector Smith said.

“We go through and do move-ons quite frequently but by midnight it’s normally all good.”

In April last year, Newtown police took the drastic step of deploying a command bus in the park staffed with four officers following resident concerns about anti-social behaviour.

At the time, police blamed the increase in revellers in the park on improved lighting which had attracted “soft targets” for robbery.