[14][1][15] Mascalls Academy is organised into four houses (called "colleges"), named after "significant individuals".

[17][18][better source needed] It had a frequently changing programme of exhibitions featuring national and internationally known artists.

[19] These included Henry Moore, L. S. Lowry, Graham Sutherland and Lee Miller as well as artists from Latin America, Japan and the United States.

In 2010, Mascalls Gallery exhibited for the first time in the UK drawings by Marc Chagall for the nearby All Saints' Church in Tudeley.

[21] The gallery closed in June 2016 due to a lack of funds,[22] and the building has since been refurbished as the new Mascalls Library.